Each of us, from young to old, deals with texts daily: babies are lullabies, children a little older read rhymes and fairy tales, schoolchildren and adults come across texts almost everywhere. Has anyone thought about the meaning of the word "text"? In this article we will consider this issue in detail.
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The noun “text” comes from the Latin word textus, which translates as “combination”, “plexus”, “fabric”. So what is text?
Text is:
- The object of study in various sciences, which is a certain coherent sequence of language signs, forming a single whole.
- Sentences united by a basic idea, thought and theme.
- Handwritten or typed speech.
- Printed set without illustrations.
Morphological characteristics
The word "text" consists of five letters and five sounds.
From the point of view of morphology, the text is a common nouns and animated masculine noun.
Declination
All nouns ending in a consonant are inflected in the second type.
| Case | Question | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative case | What? | Text is printed and written sentences, united by a common theme. | You will find texts for dictations in this collection. |
| Genitive | What? | Without text, this music seems bland. | These texts have too many flaws. |
| Dative | Why? | Do not judge the talent of the author in one text. | To begin with, we’ll come up with the names of these two texts. |
| Accusative | What? | This science studies the text as a coherent system of signs. | I read all the texts yesterday. |
| Instrumental case | Than? | Before this text you need to put a beautiful illustration. | Milena Anatolyevna worked all night with texts. |
| Prepositional | About what? In what? | I found four errors in this introductory text. | In today's lecture we will talk about texts and their varieties. |
It should be noted that in the noun “text” always, in all cases the stress falls on the first syllable.
Text Attributes
The text has several characteristic features:
- Sentences in the text are arranged in a certain order and are interconnected. This feature is called connectivity.
- Wholeness. The text is perceived as a whole. This integrity is achieved by the unity of the theme and the basis of thought.
- Informational content. Any text carries any information on the web.
- The situation. We understand the text when we realize the situation in question.
- Articulation. The text can be divided into smaller components.
- Completeness. A text is considered complete when a person has received exhaustive information from it according to the name or design of the author.
Text types
Linguistic scholars distinguish three main types of text.
- Description. Such texts describe the characteristics of objects, nature, people, phenomena, etc.
For example: "The evening was warm, but windy. The sunset painted the tops of the mountains reddish-yellow. Clouds, like newspaper boats, raced across the sky. It was beautiful and a little creepy."
- Storytelling. In the narrative, the theme of the text is revealed through action, therefore, it has many verbs.
For example: "There were three brothers. Once they went to the mountains. They met an angry sorcerer. He looked at the brothers with an icy look and turned them into mountains. In memory of the missing brothers, they called these mountains" Three Brothers ".
- Reasoning. The reasoning text is a conclusion and consists of three parts: thesis, proof and conclusion.
For example: "Everyone has one unique homeland, their most beloved. There are many names for the Motherland. The motherland is because we were born here. It is called the Fatherland because our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived on this land. We call mother or mother because we are fed we are bread grown in its open spaces. There are many different lands on our planet, but each person has one homeland. "