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Проблема сверхтекста в отечественной филологии
The Problem of Polytext in the Russian Philology

Author(s): Aleksandr Lošakov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Russian philology; text; culture text; text cycle; supertext; text structure

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the problem of conceptions of polytext, of foundation of itsnotional nature. Polytext is defined as a row of marked by associative and semantic community inthe spheres of author (creator, compiler), code, context, addressee of autonomous word textswhich in the cultural practice actually or potentionally are represented as integral (whole andunique), dynamic, multumeasured, dissipative conceptual and semantic product, completely submittedto the principle of centration. Polytext is an integral, polystylistic, polygenre, polysubjectformation. The inner aspect of integrity of polytext is connected with mechanisms which ensure its‘internal life’, determine processes making senses. Sources of conceptions of polytext are in theworks by A. Potebnya, D. Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky, A. Veselovsky, V. Ivanov, A. Belyi, M. Bahtin,G. Gukovsky and others. The interest to the theory of polytext was initiated by Y. Lotman,Z. Mints, V. Toporov and others. The cycle is a subtype of polytext.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: X
  • Page Range: 181-189
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian