Types of continuum

Plot continuum Topic continuum

In linear succession of fiction topical connections that is connections between certain topics, can be developed logically according to the development of the events in time and space and this type called plot continuum. Turaeva called this phenomena – progression and progression is uninterrupted forward movement, that is apposed to stagnation – slowed down development of events of the text, referring for the previous text or stepping aside from the main topic. In the 2^nd type of continuum – topic continuum.

Means of stagnation are:

1. Introduction of the topic of the past of background of the main character.

2. Introduction of the conceptually important topic – literary digression.

3. Introduction of the detalisation (landscape, portrait)

4. Introduction of the topic of author function, that is thoughts of the author.

Subcategories of continuum in discourse are time and space that are defined at the text to here the author is removed from the reader and they both from the described events.

Discursive time and space are time and space of communication, they may be discrete in spontaneous communication opposite to them textual time and space constitute chronotope of textual continuum.

Discourse time and space author’s

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Textual time and space reader’s

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Konegaeva defines real and intertextual chronotope. Time and space in the text usually do not form the separate topic, but are inseparable of any constituent topic.

Markers of chronotope in the text are means of different levels of language, that are integrated in the lexico-sementic fields of temporality and locality.

In neural linguistic program 2 types were define: retrospection and prospection.

Time is subjective experience in the human imagination

Retrospection referring back to the past (flashback)

Prospection – knowledge of further development of the events.

Retrospection according to Galperin can be authors given by the author and verbalized in the text and readers conditioned by keeping in the memory of reader or with a read fragment of the text.

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