Text linguistics in the modern interpretation is the relevance of certain semantic categories of the text and those internal laws of construction that ensure its coherence.
This approach to characterizing text as a linguistic figure is not the only one.
Descriptive linguistics, the peak of relevance of which falls on the 1920-50s (founder - L. Bloomfield) - first of all, paid attention to the asemantic approach to the text. In this tradition, the text was considered as a set of semantic units without revealing clear semantic links between them. More attention was paid to structural construction. Hence another name for descriptive linguistics is structuralism.
Linguistics of the text, considered in terms of relevant connections, singles out such text components as repetitions in a special series. They can be lexical, grammatical, intonational, stylistic, etc.
Note: sometimes repetition in text is considered a stylistic flaw. It should be noted that this is not always the case. In a speech, for example, of a scientific journalistic nature, repetition can act as the main semantic core of a general reasoning.
Lexical repetition is the repetition of the same word or cognate words. The repeat function can be different:
1. Designation of a large number of items:
- Behind those villages forests, forests, forests (Melnikov-Pechersky).
- People crowded around the platform, people.
2. Quality feature:
- But the blue-blue walls were the most unexpected in the design.
- In the dark, the smoke coming from the chimney seemed white-white.
3. Giving emotional coloring to action:
- Winter, extremely wet this year, never ended and never ended.
The definition of "linguistics" is not limited to an absolutely linguistic category, but such a concept as text linguistics represents broad communication links with philosophy, logic, and subsections such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, etc.
In order for the text to be understood by the reader or listener, the psycho-emotional connection expressed verbally is important.
"Not every offer can be great, but every offer must be good." The phrase belongs to contemporary American writer Michael Cunningham. Paying great attention to the style of the text, he wrote: “Knowing how much effort and inspiration goes into writing a book, I can forgive the author a lot if every line is good and in its place, and the book is written in a fresh, fascinating language,even though the author used the same words used by American writers a hundred years ago.”
We are talking, first of all, about the expression of the sentence, expressed in the semantic connection of its constituent components in terms of their psycho-emotional impact on the reader.
M. Sarton wrote in Solitude magazine: Clean the house, create peace and order around you if you cannot create it inside yourself. makes you empathize with him. This can be expressed in a short phrase: create order around if you cannot create it inside.
Cohesion (text connectivity) is just one of the many categories that text linguistics operates with. In turn, each category is associated with certain terms: speech, text, sentence, etc. At the same time, it should be noted that, due to its specificity, the terminology of text linguistics is still in its infancy and development.
