Microtext as a unit of connected speech
The article considers microtext as one of the main units of connected speech. Connected speech in the process of communication is realized by texts of various types and purposes. Microtext is considered a unit of communication and is characterized by coherence and integrity. To be a microtext, its constituent sentences must be semantically interrelated. It is noted that its study takes place around such concepts as topic, main idea, title, paragraph, complex syntactic whole, actual division of the sentence. In descriptive narration, there is a subject (theme, "given") of speech and information (rheme, "new") about it. There are two main ways of linking sentences in the text: sequential (chain) connection and parallel connection.