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Unit 2
Text as the main object of editing

I. Read the following text.

The text is a semantic, structural and grammatical unity of sentences, groups of

sentences, paragraphs, sections and other linguistic units, in which wider and more

complete, than in the sentence, deployed and specified thoughts, will and feelings.

Text is the main object of editing.

In speech, texts are often formed not only from sentences, but rather from

their collections. Because the information in the sentences is not only reported, but

the content of the message unfolds, that is, around the content of the core appear

additional messages-sentences. Sometimes such a content rod is distributed

between two, three sentences in the text. Characteristic features of the text are

syntactic unity, the connectivity of the constituent units, a certain intonational-

content community. From the point of view of the content, the text is perceived as

complete, united by the general theme of the meaningful whole. The text is also a

product of a deliberate speech act. In pragmatic direction (instrument of an act of

communication between the addressee and the addressee for a certain purpose) the

text has its informative content, that is, it covers a separate fragment of the

linguistic picture of the world with varying degrees of objectivity.

The text is the unity of sentences, arranged in a certain sequence and

interconnected in content, intonation, style, orientation through various linguistic

possibilities. In speech - it is a statement consisting of a set of sentences, thus

forming the content and structural integrity.

Leading signs of the text:

- more than one sentence;

- presence of a set of common themes and ideas;

- consistency of presentation of information and completeness;

- presence of grammatical and content types of communication between units

of text (sentences).