About the book: 2010 / The textbook offers experience in constructing a theory of text from a communicative perspective. The text is consistently considered in its relation to the participants of communication, as a sign, in relation to the world of reality, the world of texts. Against the background of the history of the development of the doctrine of text, the principles of constructing a theory of text, its operational focus on the interpretive activity of the listener (reader) are demonstrated. The understanding of the text set out in the manual allows us to get closer to understanding its “life”. The book is equipped with questions and assignments for independent work, and a bibliography. In the second edition (1st - 2003), the text of the book has been significantly revised and supplemented with new materials. For master's students, graduate students of philological specialties, teachers and humanities specialists.