Text in russian philology and semiotics: formal organization and semantics
https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-1165-2025-2-158-182
Abstract
This article reviews scholarly works that focus on understanding the nature and characteristics of text as a complex phenomenon. The study seeks to identify common conceptions of text across various philological disciplines. By exploring text from the perspectives of palaeography, codicology, epigraphy, textology, literary studies, stylistics, semiotics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, text linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, the author identifies and organizes a range of its defining attributes. The comparative analysis presented in this article may serve as a foundation for establishing a new, comprehensive, and integrated research field centered on the study of text.
About the Author
A. E. Kladova
Independent researcher
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alina E. Kladova, independent researcher
Novosibirsk
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Kladova A.E. Text in russian philology and semiotics: formal organization and semantics. Universum Humanitarium. 2025;(2):158-182. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-1165-2025-2-158-182
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