THE CONTENT-SEMANTIC DISRUPTIONS OF THE COHESION OF BIBLICAL TEXT (BASED ON THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE “BOOK OF ACTS”)

Abstract

The article considers the means of realizing textual cohesion, and also describes intentional disruptions of the content-semantic relations in the English biblical text. In the framework of unity of biblical tradition and modern linguistic theories identified is the reference of the Book of Acts to narrative genre. The characteristic of the book gives the possibility to analyze its textual structure in the aspect of the dictemic theory by M. Y. Blokh, in accord with which uniting separate sentences into a whole text is realized due to the topical function of the dicteme – an elementary unit of text. In the course of analysis of the biblical text it is stated that dictemic relations can be broken by means of semantic discontinuity, disruptions of grammatical collocation norm on the level of word and sentence, switch of the code, polyphony in the text. The results of the research allow to make the conclusion that numerous content-semantic disruptions in the biblical text strengthens its informational potential, activating readers’ cognitive abilities and encouraging them to active co-creation.