Linguistic Category of Textuality in Narrative

Abstract

The article deals with the category of textuality manifested in narrative texts. This category can be described as a system of 13 elements (subcategories). These subcategories are focused on reflecting the connections of the author and his text (the hierarchy of textual constructions, narrative implication, the presence of logical connections in the text, subjectivity of the presentation of the material), the author and the narrated reality (the presence of a special mode of narration, temporal localiza- tion, detail / conciseness of the presentation), the author and those cognitive structures that are in his mind (the ability of text fragments to be built on certain models), the author and the reader (the presence in the text of a riddle that needs to be solved by the reader, the reflection in the text of the elements of the game, into which the characters of the narrative come). The article also provides examples demonstrating the implementation of these text categories. The present work expresses the author’s opinion on the differentiation of linguistic, psychological and literary approaches to the narrative. Information is given about the category of textuality in its form, which has developed in modern science.