Textlinguistic analysis of Daniil Kharms's 'The Old Woman'

This work has been concentrating on text linguistic analysis of "The Old Woman". In order to make that kind of analysis there was given the short history of Western and Russian Textlinguistics, the method of analysis was decided and the most relevant text categories such as cohesion, continuum and modality chosen. At the same time Kharms's life and art was shortly described to determine the basic topics to come out from the text. Three text categories have been chosen (cohesion, coherence and continuum) to sum up the international and Russian approach to the topic, and the analysis of the text has been held according to these categories. It is mainly aimed to detect what language units combine to make Kharms's literary style, to understand the relationship between the text and the general native speaking reader, and to state the relationship between the structural parts of the text and topics within it.