It is really difficult to find another term in the field of linguistics that would be used so often, but at the same time would be as ambiguous as the term “text”. Similar problem is faced with hundreds of sentence…
The author of one of the first Russian textbooks devoted to Text Linguistics Z. Turaeva singles out several directions of modern linguistic text analysis. Actually, those are not directions, but particular tasks the scholars had to deal with since the…
Russian scholars are also interested in general tendencies of the development of the theory of a text. T.M. Nikolaeva, estimating the modern state of Text Linguistics, postulates the existence of two trends in it. At the same time, she especially…
In modern linguistic literature, one can find some other approaches to text analysis. For example, E. Coseriu considers that there are only two possible ways of text analysis and accordingly just two kinds of text linguistics. The object under study…
Other scholars view the modern level of text research in a somewhat different way. J. Petofi, for example, postulates the existence of two opposite trends in the scientific study of the text. The representatives of one trend consider a text…