THE PLACE OF THE CATEGORY OF INFORMATIVENESS IN THE SYSTEM OF TEXT CATEGORIES

Abstract

The study of text categories is essential because it is impossible to talk about the object of study without naming and explaining its categories. The description of text categories and their interaction is aimed at obtaining the generalized description of the whole system, i.e. the text as a whole by combining knowledge about its elements. The article deals with the observation, analysis, and research of text categories and their classification on the example of a newspaper weather forecast report. Basic characteristic features of information in newspaper weather forecast repots are given. The review of scientific literature shows that there exist specific and universal text categories. The main function of newspaper weather forecast report is the information transfer that is why the author highlights the category of informativeness. Category of informativeness is one of the leading text categories. The study of the category of informativeness requires a clear definition of "informativeness" and "information", bearing in mind the interpretation of these concepts by definitions adopted in linguistics, cybernetics and information theory. We should take into account the general scientific nature of the concept "information" and the philosophical significance of the term "category". Thus, the category of informativeness should be studied at the intersection of linguistic directions using the achievements of related sciences in inseparable connection with other text categories. The topicality of linguistic problem mentioned above is proved by the wide range of scientific works on text categories.