Chapter as communicative unit (based on first part of the novel by M. Sholokhov “And Quiet Flows the Don”)

Solganik Grigoriy Yu.,

Doctor of Philology, Professor,

Head of Chair of Russian Language Stylistics,

Distinguished Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University

E-mail: journ.stilist@yandex.ru, sol@home.ptt.ru

In this paper a chapter is discussed as a term of fiction text. Hear inner structure of the chapter is discussed as relatively independent integral unit, also the role of the chapter in a work of fiction, and meaning full segmentation are analyzed.

Key words: a chapter, an integral unit, a story-teller, an anonymous story-teller.