5.1. List of Terms

TEXT LINGUISTICS TERMS YOU NEED TO KNOW

1.        Levels and layers of language and discourse;

2.        Language versus Speech versus discourse;

3.        Signs and symbols;

4.        Monologue – dialogue – soliloquy [sə'lɪləkwɪ];

5.        Hermeneutics, hermeneutic circle;

6.        Decomposition and deconstruction of text.

7.        Text theory versus Text Linguistics;

8.        Textuality;

9.        Text grammar: proposition – sentence – utterance; deep and surface structures;

10.      cohesion [kəu'hiːʒ(ə)n];

11.      coherence [kə(u)'hɪər(ə)n(t)s]/;

12.      intentionality;

13.      acceptability;

14.      informativity;

15.      situationality;

16.      intertextuality (in text linguistics);

17.      Recurrence (same words occur);

18.      Substitution (Стагирит ~ Аристотель);

19.      Pro-forms (местоимения и про-формы: Yes, it is.);

20.      Deixis (us here andthem  there; these or those etc.);

21.      Ellipse;

22.      consecutio temporum (sequence of tenses);

23.      conjunctions and connectors;

24.      meta-communication;

25.      isotopy, (isotopism  = semantic cohesion);

26.      scenes and frames;

27.      text interpretation; presuppositions; implications; implicit meanings; inference;

28.      Theme - Rheme Progression;

29.      associative ties and inferences;

30.      superstructures and macro-structures; Frames – Scenes – Scripts;

31.      anaphora;

32.      cataphora;

33.      Texture versus structure;

34.      Empathy;

35.      Narrative text structure;

36.      Narrative text functions;

37.      Narrative techniques;

38.      Speech act structure: invention; locution; illocution; perlocution.

39.      ETHOS - LOGOS – PATHOS

40.      Field -Tenor - Mode

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do not forget to pass the test before 24-04-2022!!!