NEW TENDENCIES IN TEXT EXISTENCE: THE VARIABLE AND THE DYNAMIC

Abstract

Review of the monograph of Doctor of Philology, Professor of Voronezh State University Ludmila I. Grishaeva “Variation of Text in Communication“ (L.I. Grishaeva. Voronezh: Nauka-Unipress, 2020. — 291 p. ISBN 978-5- 4292-0207-5). The monograph accumulates the results of a long-term research performed by the author and her scientific school that reflect rapid developments of text linguistics of the early 21st century. As an independent scientific discipline, this field represents an important theoretical and methodological basis, important also for dissertation research the results of which are included in the book. The monograph under review consists of an introduction, five chapters and a conclusion. L. I. Grishaeva skillfully substantiates the concept of text varying, proceeding from the textual-grammatical mechanisms of fixation, activation and translation of the information about the world. The book gives the detailed coverage to the issues of varying of semantic and syntactic text structure at micro and macro levels. Taking into consideration numerous factors that determine the essence and limits of text variation a wide range of topics significant for the text, communicative stylistics and media linguistics are considered in the monograph. They all lay at the intersection of disciplines and provide a deep explanation of how the principles of dividing the information flow, fit to various communicative situations, mean primly the cultural decoding and encoding of messages. Achievement of pragmatic and intentional effects by the speech sender in the communication process is illustrated by a number of relevant examples of the most representative types of German-language media texts. It is the media text with its maximum communicative and functional potential that reflects the fine tuning by the solution of communicative and cognitive tasks; it distinctively manifests the influence and role of language cultures, which are optimal for confirming or refuting the theory postulated in the book.