LITERARY TEXT AND LITERARY DISCOURSE

This article examines literary text and literary discourse in a pragmatic light. With the advent of speech theory in linguistics, pragmatic research has become very popular. From this point of view, studies of the pragmatic potential of a literary text in the background of the literary discourse can be considered as actual topic. The article attempts to analyze the distinctive and similar features and functions of literary text and artistic discourse. The research material is scientific-theoretical and scientific-practical studies of the connection with the text and discourse in general. In the course of the research, the descriptive-comparative method of linguistics was used. The pragmatic potential of a literary text and literary discourse is assessed. It is noted that these concepts always complement each other and are closely interrelated.