Text theory from the position of the cognitive-discursive paradigm

The article is concerned with the problems of the communicative and cognitive approaches to text analysis. The aim is to study both communicative and cognitive principles of textual communication proceeding from the main assumptions of communicative and cognitive linguistics. In the focus of attention are the following issues: the notion of discourse, the categories of informativity and intentionality, cognitive principles of presenting information in the text, foregrounding, frame analysis.