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KRF/9TSD
-IS/STAG
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic areas of textual linguistics, to explain the terms "style", "text" and "discourse" and to develop their skills of the stylistic analysis, textual analysis and discourse analysis. The lectures deal with the subject and basic terms of stylistics, the system of the functional style stratification of standard Russian, the style features of language units. They define the text and highlight the diversity of its understanding, define text-forming categories, the structure of the text, the intertextual relations and intertextuality. They clarify the terms of "discourse" and deal with the different approaches to the interpretation, determine the structure of the discourse, the relationship of the discourse to the style and the text. At the seminars, students are familiarized with concrete examples of the stylistic analysis of the text and understand the methodology of the discourse analysis.