Text as a unit of language and as a work of speech
The problem of the definition of a text and general tendencies of the formation of the whole linguistic discipline which studies a text are considered in the article "Text as a unit of language and as a work of speech". The problem of the interaction between a text and a language is discussed. A text is viewed as an intricately organized unity of linguistic units and their relations. The ideas about the starting material existing before a language are formulated.