Abstract
The review presents the monograph by Anastasia V. Urzha, Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The monograph is focused on the phenomenon of grounding in a narrative, on the means and devices affecting reader’s attention, on the principles of foregrounding and backgrounding the information in a text. For the first time Russian and foreign traditions of studying grounding in a narrative are presented and compared in detail. The classic and the newest works in the sphere of narratology, linguistics, cognitive and translation studies are taken into account. Also the monograph presents author’s view of salient structure of a narrative exploring various functions of egocentric units in it. The book accumulates the results of research carried out by A.V. Urzha on the material of numerous original texts in English and their Russian translations.
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