- •Functional analysis of a text
- •2. The Model of Functional Analysis of a Text Table 1
- •3.1 Model Description: The Informative Function
- •3.2.Text to demonstrate how functions work:
- •3.3. Free interpretation and sharing stage:
- •3.4. Systematization of realia:
- •3.5. Allusions, intertextuality
- •3.6. Linguistic Information
- •3.6.1. Sound Level
- •3.6.2. Word Level
- •3. 6.3. Sentence and Text Levels
- •3.7. Preliminary Conclusion
- •4.The communicative function
- •4.1. Communicative triangle
- •4.2.1. Genre Properties: theoretical background
- •4.2. The Markers of the Communicative Function and Communicative Properties of the text from “Ulysses”
- •4.3. Chronotopal triangle
- •4.4. Chronotopal relations in the passage from “Ulysses”
- •4.5. Conclusion:
- •5. The emotive function of the text
- •5.1. Theoretic background
- •5.2. The Markers of the Emotive Function in the Passage from “Ulysses”
- •5.3. Conclusion
- •6. The aesthetic function of the text
- •6.1. Theoretical background
- •6.1.1. Subjective Essence of the Category of the Beautiful
- •6.1.2. Objective Essence of the Category of the Beautiful
- •6.2. The Contents and the Markers of the Aesthetic Function in the mfat
- •6.2.1. Integrity
- •6.2.2. Harmony:
- •6.2.3. Clarity
- •7.Conclusion
2. The Model of Functional Analysis of a Text Table 1
2.1. The MFAT
№ |
Function |
Сontents |
Markers |
1 |
The Informative Function The ability of the text to inform the reader |
(a)Extra linguistic and (b)linguistic information |
(a)Facts, ideas, realia intertextual units: realia allusions, quotations (b) Sounding, Rhythm, Word-usage, Morphological and syntactical characteristics. Text typology
|
2 |
The Communicative Function (The ability of the text to communicate with the reader) |
Intermediate relations between the author, the text (in some cases characters) and the reader |
The markers of the author’s presence (personal pronouns, the mode of the narration: first or third person narrative) subjective modality, deixis (Chronotop), (locatives and temperatives)
|
3 |
The Emotive Function The ability of the text to impact the reader |
The Mode of Expressiveness
|
Words of assessment (evaluative connotation) Figures of Speech, Metaphoric and Metonymic expressions, Stylistic Devices
|
4 |
The Aesthetic Function (The ability of the text to evoke the feeling of pleasure or disgust) |
Integrity, Harmony, Clarity (Integritas, Consonantia, Claritas) |
Wholeness, opposites, logical development (means of surface and inner cohesion: logical hooks, semantic and syntactic parallelisms, semantic fields, theme and rheme development, associative development |
2.2.Preliminary steps: Below this model will be described in detail. Yet, first and foremost, it should be noted that the implementation of this model demands (1) a preliminary close –reading procedure to define a stylistic register and grammatical status of every word as well as syntactic characteristics of the text and its type. (2) If a period of the text under analysis is known, it will be necessary to have an idea of its epistemological (conceptual), ideological, aesthetic and genre codes, as well as of the individual rhetoric code of the author (to define the latter could be formulated as a purpose of the analysis). In this case it would advisable to do some encyclopedia search. (3) Besides, to succeed in text decoding and interpreting it will be necessary to compress the text (to write a précis, to extract preliminary factual and conceptual information1). (4) Free interpretation and sharing impressions in class will be very useful. It will make easier to formulate the purpose of the analysis and to define variants of implicit information, the invariant of which could be defined with the help of functional method of text analysis.
QUESTIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS: