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A Profile of Linguistic Text Analysis
I.
Information about the author:
which should provide a deeper insight into the message
and style of the text under analysis.
II.
Message of the text:
the main idea (ideas) of the text and
its contents in brief, main thematic lines and turns of the plot.
III.
General character of the text:
3.1.
the writer’s voice and tone:
3.1.1.
the type of narrative and
narrator (subjectivized – in the first person; objectivized – in the third
person);
3.1.2.
the choice of the point of
view (the author’s point of view; the character’s point of view; the onlooker’s
point of view);
3.1.3.
the form(s) of presentation
(the author’s narrative – narration, meditations, description [panoramic,
general view, close-up]; an outer/inner speech);
3.1.4.
types of characters:
protagonist-antagonist.
IV. A stylistic aspect of the text analysis:
4.1.
determine the peculiarities of the author’s style and genre of the
message;
4.2. investigate the title of the
text and give a sense of it;
4.3.
study possible logical parts of the text (exposition; beginning of the plot;
plot complications; culmination; denouement; concluding part/ending);
4.4.
explain the usage of expressive means (EM) and stylistic devices (SD) employed,
choice of the vocabulary.
V.
Conclusion.
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