5. The textual level of actualization is realized via:

Textual category

The Textual level of Actualization: The Title

1. Divisibility

Intermediate titles given to chapters or parts of a work of fiction actualize the category of divisibility.

2/3. Coherence, cohesion

Coherence is established due to repeating of the words of the title in the text. J. Lahiri “The Namesake”

4. Prospection

The title modifies readers’ anticipations and expectations.

5. Retrospection

The title is a frame sign. It provides the connection of the story’s beginning and ending, makes readers return to some previously described time planes.

6. Anthropocentricity

Although the category of anthropocentricity is available in any work of fiction, in the title it is only actualized when proper names or their descriptive substitutes (“Macbeth”, W. Shakespeare, “The Catcher in the Rye” J. D. Saliger).

7. Spatio-temporal reference

Space and time are regularly actualized in the title. Their conceptual loading totally depends on the context.

"An Evening in Bysantium" (I. Shaw); "From Here to Eternity" (J. Jones); "The Deer Park" (N. Mailer); "Bullit Park" (J. Cheever); "2001: A Space Odyssey" (A. Clarke); "The Winter of Our Discontent" (J. Steinbeck); "Butterfield, 8" (J. O'Hara); "Winesburg, Ohio" (Sh. Anderson).

8. Conceptuality

The concept is only represented by a complete literary text. The most important and precise formulation of the concept can be placed in the title.

9. Informativeness

The title names the text according to its topic.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will" (W. Shakespeare); "Slapstick, or Lonesome no More" (K. Vonnegut).

9. Systemacy

See 5.

10. Completeness

/integrity

Completeness is established due to the delimitative function of the title that separates two complete texts.

11. Modality

The category of modality is shown explicitly (via the use of emotive words in their direct meaning. "The Quiet American" Гр. Грина, "Wonder Hero" Дж. Пристли, "The Nice and the Good" А. Мердок.

12. Pragmatic orientation

The title as the first sign of the text performs advertising and contact functions. "The Murder on the Links"; "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"; "The Murder at the Vicarage"; "Murder on the Orient Express"; "Murder in Three Acts"; "The ABC Murder"; "Murder in Mesopotamia"; "Murder Is Easy"; "A Murder Is Announced"