Textual level of actualization

TEXTUAL LEVEL OF ACTUALIZATION

General function of actualization on the textual level refers to the amplification (reinforcing) and nomination (advancing) of a textual category to the first plan.

Functions of emphatic textual units	Actualizes the follows	Examples
Title	Informativeness	‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’ (H. Fielding)
Local-temporal relations	‘Anthony in Blue Alsatia’ (E. Farjeon), ‘Indian Camp’ (E. Hemingway)
Coherence and cohesion	‘Cat in the Rain’ (E. Hemingway)
Procpection	‘Tender is the Night’ (S. Fitzgerald)
Pragmatic orientation	‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ (H. Lee), ‘How not to be Earnest’ (O. Wild)
Proper Name	Before-anthroponomical	Etymological meaning that actualizes the disposition of a character	Becky Sharp, Коробочка
Anthroponomical	Refines a character; does not have proper subject-logical meaning, that’s why is realized in the context	Luz in ‘A Very Short Story’ by E. Hemingway
From-anthroponomical / After-anthroponomical	Appellative meaning (= used to be an anthroponomical but denoted such a bright character that started to be referred to a typical character of different people in general, not only in relation to a concrete text)	Othello, Don Juan
Artistic Detail	Pictorial (figurative)	Visual image	Bonny bells of heather ‘Heather Ale’ by R.L. Stivenson, Green light in ‘The Great Gatsby’ by S. Fitzgerald
Refining	Details of a fact, event, phenomena	The imperfection of houses during the process of house-hunting – “sometimes they were too…”(‘The Escape’ by S. Maugham)
Characteristic (characterological)	Features of a character	Eyes of Ruth Barlow in ‘The Escape’ by S. Maugham, Strickland’s hands in ‘The Moon and Sixpence’ by S. Maugham
Strong Position	Beginning	Introduction of a character in the background of time and place of action; Relation of the title and the text	1^st paragraph in ‘The Escape’ by S. Maugham
End	The category of completeness and integrity	‘A Very Short Story’ (E. Hemingway), ‘Cat in the Rain’ (E. Hemingway), ‘Anthony in Blue Alsatia’ (E. Farjeon)

Cohesion and Coherence refer to tight, integrated relations of textual fragments and a text as the whole. Cohesion refers to the property of textual elements, fragments be related; it means local linear relations – links, connections; actualizes the perception of a text on the linear level. Coherence refers to the integral property of a text as the whole; it means a global semantic relation of completeness; actualizes the perception of a text on the vertical level.

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