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Seminar 10
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. What is text? What are the basic characteristics of text? Can text be
considered the highest language unit?
2. Define the notions of cohesion and coherence. What is the difference
between the two?
3. Comment on the types of cohesion (reference, ellipsis, conjunction, lexical
organization).
4. What textual categories are usually identified by scholars? Is the number of
textual categories strictly limited?
5. What are the principles of identifying textual units? What textual units are
differentiated by different scholars?
6. How is the supra-phrasal unity singled out? What marks the border between
two neighboring supra-phrasal unities? How does the supra-phrasal unity
correlate with the paragraph?
