Abstract:

The article is devoted to one of the most important problems of the text linguistics – the problem of functioning of the text-forming categories. On the example of the german contract the role of the temporality category is considered in the creation of the text as a communicative unit and global structure, synthesizing the linguistic features at different levels, an overview of the basic linguistic researches in this direction is given, the principles of grammatical construction of the contract as a text type and its typological characteristics are investigated. The analysis allows to determine the invariant linguistic features of the contract text and a complex of the language means of the different levels for their representation, as well as to refer the contract to the monotemporal type of law text.

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