The manual summarizes and systematizes material on text theory, contains a description of various approaches to determining text and its features, lighting of text categories, basic means of interphase communication, as well as typologies of texts. The basic concepts of text theory are considered from the standpoint of the communicative style of the text. Different types of text analysis are presented as the most important components of his comprehensive philological research, taking into account the cultural and historical context of the era. The book contains samples of analysis of texts of different types, tables, diagrams, test questions, summaries.