Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 45 стр.

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Seminar 18
Text as an Object of Research. The Problem of the Text Unit
Reading
1. Блох М.Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. (Ch. XXXI, p.
351 – 364)
2. Блох М. Я. Теоретические основы грамматики. (Ч. 3, гл. 2, с. 113 – 123)
Points to discuss
1. Text as an object of text linguistics.
2. Text as an object of research. Criteria of textuality.
3. Textual categories.
4. Textual units. The supra-phrasal unity and the paragraph.
Questions for discussion
1. Give a definition of text. What are various approaches to defining text?
2. What does the text-as-a-product approach consist in? What does the text-as-
a-process approach consist in?
3. Can text be considered the highest language unit?
4. What are the basic characteristics of text?
5. What criteria of textuality are applied to texts?
6. Define the notions of cohesion and coherence. What is the difference
between the two?
7. Comment on the types of cohesion (reference, ellipsis, conjunction, lexical
organization).
8. What textual categories are usually identified by scholars? Is the number of
textual categories strictly limited?
9. What are the principles of identifying textual units?
10. What textual units are differentiated by different scholars?
11. How is the supra-phrasal unity singled out?
12. What marks the border between two neighboring supra-phrasal unities?
13. How does the supra-phrasal unity correlate with the paragraph?