Typical Meaning of Predicative Units in the Text Descriptions of the Portrait Photograph
The main propositions of the communicative-functional theory by G.A. Zolotova were developed mainly on the material of texts of fiction. In our article we have tried to apply these concepts to the texts, which do not model reality (texts of fiction), but directly reproduce it, in other words texts that are created be the speaker / writer basing on real, direct observation. In the article we analyze the sentence models and their typical meanings which are the most frequent for speaker/writer, when creating the text descriptions of a photograph. These texts are the result of an experiment that we conducted with the students of the Philological Faculty and the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. During the experiment the students were asked to describe one of the photos (actress Marlene Dietrich and singer Madonna). The task was formulated as follows: «Describe what you really see in the picture, without going beyond the field of current observation to the field of knowledge».