Mechanism of Theme-Formation in a Text as it was Represented by Boris Tomashevsky and Georgij Shengeli (Based on the Works of 1925)

 
PIIS160578800022749-9-1
DOI10.31857/S160578800022749-9
Publication type Article
Status Published
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Occupation: Leading Researcher, Director of the Centre for Text Theory and Linguistic Communicative Support
Affiliation: Russian State University for the Humanities
Address: 6 Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047, Russia
Journal nameIzvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka
EditionVolume 81 Issue 5
Pages100-109
Abstract

In the mid-1930s, linguists began to spot problems, which cannot be solved without analysis of textual and discursive phenomena. Up to that moment some of such problems have been already pointed out and considered in the adjacent fields of Humanitarian theory and practice. The article deals with one of such anticipations made simultaneously by prominent Russian theorists Boris Tomashevsky and Georgij Shengeli in their studies of literary composition. They discovered that theme-formation in a text is based on the unity of meanings in neighboring sentences (Tomashevsky) or on semantic interaction of consecutive utterances (Shengeli).

Keywordstheme of a text, mechanism of theme-formation, the unity of sentence meanings, interaction of utterances, analysis of narrative composition, lyric composition, immediate constituents in the structure of a text, similarities and distinctions between Tomashevsky’ and Shengeli’s approaches, the pre-history of textlinguistics and of discourse analisys
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Publication date11.11.2022
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