Seminar You should read the text and analyze it systematically. Wholeness

Seminar 5.
You should read the text and analyze it systematically.


Wholeness of a text means integration of all its structural and semantic levels. Wholeness makes a text relatively complete and we perceive it as a unified continual object. This category comprises three components: unity of content, unity of form and unity of function.

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  Unity of content or semantic unity is revealed through representation of the text concept, through gradual development of the topic by movement from already known to new facts. It rests on the lexical level of the language.
  
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  Psycholinguists consider that a text is semantically integral if it can be abridged without serious damage to its general meaning.
  
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  Unity of form or grammatical unity is connected with morphological and syntactical level of the language. It is resulted by coordination of grammatical forms and relations, and depends on word order, correct usage of conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns.
  
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  Unity of function or communicative unity is represented by the author’s intention and results of its realization, esthetic effect of the text, its functional value, its ability to satisfy communicative expectations of the addressee.