Title and Concept: the Case of Interrelation

Abstract

The study investigates title-concept relations in the perspective of text completeness. Completeness as a compulsory text category develops on the basis of the whole text along conceptual theme development. If so we guess that it starts being formed from the very beginning and includes the title. The analysis showed that the title really belongs to text completeness although its ability to prognosticate text concept differs and depends on the factor of its formal and semantic structure as well as prevailing – retrospective or prospective – type of relations with text conceptual theme and its concept.