Argumentative semantics in the information field of an artistic text

Abstract

The article describes the main features of the argumentative semantics, its functional significance and ways of its representation in the text structure of the text as the basic unit of communication. On the material of Russian writers’ artistic works the author identifies and characterizes various ways of expressing comparative, evaluation, illustrative, etc. kinds of argumentation at the stages of speech generating and percepting, as well as the elements of linguistic analysis of text components.