Text Linguistics and the Use of Linguistic Data in Modern Technologies: Prospects for Development

Abstract

This study explores text linguistics as a branch of linguistics that analyses the structure, meaning, and other aspects of texts. The paper aims to analyse the use of linguistic data in modern technologies, in particular, to develop applications that can understand and generate linguistic content. To achieve this goal, the research uses the methodology of qualitative analysis and is based on the work of textual theorists. The study is based on a qualitative analysis of examples collected from the BNC corpus. The instructions for obtaining data are to use textual forms located at specific positions in the co-text. The use of qualitative analysis for data acquisition is useful for studying phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, and general linguistic facts. The results confirm the promising possibilities of text linguistics and the use of language data in technology, in particular the growth in the volume and availability of language data and the application of new methods of text analysis. The conclusions point to the connection of text linguistics with other fields and the expansion of the capabilities of semantic search engines and automatic text processing systems. In addition, the article emphasises the importance of digital resources and the study of phrases as effective tools for linguistic analysis. The analysis of three illustrative examples taken from the British linguistic corpus is carried out with the aim of studying textual and discourse phenomena in the use of language data. A certain inconsistency between the factors has been revealed, which leads to a blurring of the linguistic facts that the authors of the article tried to investigate. It should be noted that the selected examples, which were created to support the theory, are artificial, which makes it difficult to analyse the context. This makes it difficult for native English speakers to evaluate these examples. This is especially true for the first example, where the syntactic constructions do not match the context. This deviation was observed at the level of the sentence's information structure. As for the second example, the discomfort observed can be explained by the lack of motivation to use the referent that was introduced into the context as a reference marker that is independently associated with it in the place where the phrase appears in the text. There is also a clear polyphonic inconsistency in the origin of the point of view that characterises each segment of the sentence. This inconsistency is related to the choice of the reference marker.