Abstract
In the proposed study, the authors deal with a discourse (compared to a text) as a special verbatology form. The authors proceed from the general settings of narrative theory, and upgrade it with methodological achievements of verbatology, linguistics of text, genius and functional stylistics, – with the aim to specify the notions of discourse and text in the theoretical discussion. Considering various approaches to these concepts and definitions of the two concepts, as formulated and observed from various theoretical aspects, the authors have come to believe that a text and a discourse are actually higher rank structures in relation to the syntactic language forms, i.e. that the forms of suprasentential or, actually, genre organization of the verbal activities are on one side, while the forms of its written representation are on the other side. Here we have the concept of discourse in the foreground, and we have understood the text as a support, i.e. as our starting point in the discussion, in relation to which we define the discourse. Observed in such theoretical perspective – a discourse represents the linguistic base and the structural background of the text, including all important processes of preparation and creation of structural forms of the verbal activity as a whole.
Highlights
Introduction“think before you speak” really has some hidden theoretical sense, as the socalled “cognitive” linguists and psycholinguists discuss verbal strategies and, presumably, it is necessary to discuss the strategy implemented in some constructive solutions preceding “articulation”, i.e. Austin’s “locution” [8]
It is obvions that the concept of discourse is inseparable from the concept of a text according to Harris, and we will primarily observe the discourse relying upon perceptions of the text
: on the basis of these considerations, it can be really concluded that a discourse is the basic form of expression and that a text is constructed on its foundation
Summary
“think before you speak” really has some hidden theoretical sense, as the socalled “cognitive” linguists and psycholinguists discuss verbal strategies and, presumably, it is necessary to discuss the strategy implemented in some constructive solutions preceding “articulation”, i.e. Austin’s “locution” [8] This structural base or scheme must always go through the verbal innervation, even if it is not shaped aloud before it acquires its written form, if it is acquires at all in the text. : on the basis of these considerations, it can be really concluded that a discourse is the basic form of expression and that a text is constructed on its foundation This means that a verbally shaped expression is a specific kind of text, as it follows innervation and articulation processes, which in that case represent preparation of both of them
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