On the status of text syntax as a section of the science of language

The article presents the author's position on substantiating the status of text syntax as a language level and a section of the science of language. As arguments the general signs of conformity to this status and their manifestation in the conditions of text syntax are stated. The following are emphasised: sufficiency of scientific support of the theory of text syntax; reality of its own functions, its own categories: units, relations, types of connection, regularities of their manifestation; compositional and stylistic specificity, its own expressive possibilities, connections with other sciences, as well as general scientific and applied significance. The functional approach to the study of text syntax and its manifestation is actualised. The text is defined as a means of linguistic reflection of phenomena or events of objective reality and a means of forming acts of speech communication in the form of a system of appropriate composition of functions performed. Text syntax is presented as a level of functioning of all levels of language, as a functioning system of linguistic means, as a level of communicative manifestation of language, as language itself in its objective-subjective phenomenality. The syntax of a text as a branch of language science is presented as describing the communicatively significant units of a language based on their meaning, structure and functions, the processes of their formation and the specifics of their functioning. In this regard, the methodological function of the text syntax itself is considered as the science of the process of forming (composing) a text and the algorithm of its study. In this aspect, a comprehensive text analysis is presented, formed in the logic of linguistic analysis based on the syntax of the text.

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