LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF A LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

Nowadays, modern linguistics deals with formation of text and discourse. For many years, in modern linguistics linguists like Bart, Lotman, Galperin, Kuhn began to have been researching literary texts and their analysis. In modern language analysis of literary text is called a philological analysis, linguistic analysis, linguistic interpretation or a linguo-cognitive analysis. Linguo-cognitive analysis means the relation between consciousness and a language. The literary text completely depends on the context, thus texts can be considered contextual. Many linguists consider context an indispensible part of pragmatics, so pragmatics itself investigates communication according to the context. In modern textlinguistics pragmatics is studied due to its five aspects. Leech (1983) classified them as followed: deixis, conversational implicature, presupposition, speech acts and conversational structure. In this article we mainly based on Beaugrande’s and Dressler’s text researches and obtained some valuable outcomes. As we know text is the largest unit of linguistics that composed of lexical units. The meaning of the text serves the communication, information and expression of thoughts. The process of interpreting text is generally based on context of situation and context depends on background knowledge[1, 3]. Context of situation depends on person and personalities, verbal and non-verbal actions among correspondents, and other relevant features of situation.