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Part 2
CATEGORICAL TEXT ANALYSIS
2.1. Text and its Categories
The text is an object studied by a relatively new science – t e x t
l i n g u i s t i c s. This science should be distinguished from t e x t o l o g y
(which mainly attributes texts to certain authors) and d i s c o u r s e
a n a l y s i s (studying “text in social environments”
or text among
other texts).
What is more important, the term “text linguistics” has a broader
and a narrower understandings. In the broader sense, it
implies t e x t
g r a m m a r, t e x t s t y l i s t i c s, and t e x t l i n g u i s t i c s
on itself (understood narrowly).
T e x t
g r a m m a r studies, according to Prof. O. I. Moskalskaya,
the syntactic phenomena presented in the units bigger than a sentence:
theme-rheme progressions, prospective and retrospective cumulation,
composition of a separate paragraph (supra-phrasal unit) and of a text
in general.
T e x t s t y l i s t i c s lies, according to Prof. I. V. Arnold, within
speech stylistics, thus studying real texts and their ways of representing
certain contents according
not only to language norms, but also to
meaningful deviations from these norms. Stylistics in general is interested
in the principles and effect of using any language means within the text
for delivering one’s thoughts and emotions in different communicative
conditions.
The main idea of t e x t l i n g u i s t i c s on itself (in the narrower
understanding) is studying the unique properties (parameters)
of the text which distinguish it from all other units of language. These
parameters are called t e x t c a t e g o r i e s.