THEMATIC STRUCTURE OF THE LECTURE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the investigation of thematic structure of the lecture. The definition of the concept ‘lecture’ is considered in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Abbyy Lingvo 12. The basic features of the written lecture and means of coherence providing in the text of the lecture are distinguished and analysed. For the texts of the written lectures such linguistic parameters, as a theme, focus and links were defined and analysed. Written fixations of the lecture material, concluded by the author-lecturer, have a clear structure. They can represent every thought. The logic of the presentation of the material by the author, the argumentation of the submitted statements in it, the smoothness and sequence of the presentation of the lecture material to achieve the communicative purpose are characteristic for a written lecture. A homogeneous thematic structure covers the whole lecture. The main thematic connection is characteristic for it (phrases are connected with the same subject), the sub-thematical connection (the next phrase is hierarchically subordinated to the previous one – from the general to the detail) and the macro-thematical one (the next phrase is the top of the hierarchy relative to the previous one).