LITERARY TENSE CATEGORY AS FUNCIONAL DOMINANTA OF TEXT FORMATION

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of the literary tense category which is considered as a structural-forming base for texts of all genres. Current approaches to understanding the nature of the text, characteristic features of the text accepted in modern science are identified and described in the article. For the first time structural characteristics of literary tense are identified and three main time phases with which the literary tense is constantly in contact are singled out, namely the proper tense, the anti-time and the pseudo-time. The introduction of the literary tense category allowed us to distinguish between the concept of text and textual utterance and expand existing views on the nature of the text.