Electronic literary text: cohesion and coherence aspects

Abstract

The article deals with the questions of electronic literary text cohesion and coherence specifity. Development of informational and communicational technologies in modern world transformed the text materiality. Nowadays its basic categories relate mostly to the electronic communication features. Electronic text became significant in all spheres of human communication. This factor makes this phenomenon relevant for the research and educational options on the topic. The research materials include several electronic texts (based on different platforms and technologies such as Adobe Flash, Scalar, HTML 5) that demonstrate the use of conceptually valid poly-code elements in their semantic structure. The basic characteristics of the text (printed or electronic) are the categories of cohesion and coherence. The cohesion specifity results from dual (verbal and non-verbal) structure of electronic literary text. The author suggests that the structural aspect of the electronic literary text semantic cohesion is not isolated from the other types of verbal and nonverbal elements correlations because it is not semantic self-contained and complete. The semantic cohesion of electronic literary text poly-code elements is usually represented in both structural and identifying aspects.