Grishina O.N. Text Analysis. Moscow 2000.
Guide for 5th Year Students
Мглу 2000,
Учебное пособие для студентов 5го курса языковых вузов.
Preface
This textbook offers a collection of texts from various spheres of communication: Chapter 1: Essays (Journalistic Style), Chapter 2: Short stories (Belles-lettres Style) and Chapter 3: Popular scientific (Academic) Articles (Scientific Prose Style).
Each type of text is studied in the corresponding chapter along the lines of 1) comprehension and vocabulary, 2) analysis, 3) discussion and
4) writing. The greatest emphasis is given to the analysis part, which focuses on the semantic, compositional, logical, emotional, pragmatic and other aspects of the text. This part gives short surveys of relevant theoretical issues and refers the students to their prior experience in the theory of the language. It also offers questions that help to apply theory to practical analysis. Each section contains seven texts: the initial texts are intended for thorough study; the main points of analysis are then summed up in the list of Guidelines. Texts given after the Guidelines can be studied independently.
The textbook is supplemented by an Appendix (texts for oral Russian-English translation), a Glossary of Literary and Stylistic Terms and a list of References.
