Text and discourse: between Scylla and Charybdis of cognitive Linguopoetics

yesThe article explores the problem of understanding the three main concepts, which are crucial for modern discourse analysis, - text, discourse, and speech. The authors argue that these categories are basic for linguopoetics and exist in functional unity. The discourse verbally and cogitatively reflects the actual world picture in our minds. The text is the first and the most important and actually observable means of its verbal representation. Another means is the communicative eventive environment where the text is created. Different approaches to these two terms, their role and function in the discourse analysis are briefly observedBelgorod State Universit