Postgraduate course 2025/2026

Text: Modern Approaches to Text Studies

Type: Compulsory course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

Where: School of Foreign Languages

When: 1 year, 1 semester

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Galina Gumovskaya

Language: English

Contact hours: 16

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Text is a unit of speech, however, in its abstract, non-specific expression, it is a simulated language unit, which can be represented as a nominative unit through a semantic triangle, where text will be detonate, topical macro-proposition - significate, and an event reflected in this text, - referent. The feature of the text of the fiction is his fictional character. It is created according to certain aesthetic laws and is endowed with an emotive function of influence, and the world depicted in it correlates with reality indirectly, refracted through the individual-copyright of his perception, transforming in accordance with the author's intention, i.e. conceptualizing.