Text Complexity: Periods of Study in Russian Linguistics

Linguistic studies dealing with the text analysis are up-to-date. The present article is a descriptive one aimed to give information on the periods of the text complexity studying in Russian linguistics. As the pre-survey showed unlike the foreign experience there is a lack of information on this topic in Russian studies. Text complexity is a subject of many foreign researches as well as there are many researches on what parameters should be considered as text complexity parameters. The fulfilled researcher allows to point out the three main periods. The first period that is the second half of the XX century is concentrated primarily on quantitative parameters of the text (text length, sentence length, word length etc) that is readability. The second period is the turn of the XX and XXI centuries tends to solve the problem of comprehensibility and the quantitative parameters are enlarged with some qualitative (words acquaintance, word abstractness etc.). The third period is the modern stage of text complexity studying which supposes the development of different computer programs to evaluate the text complexity automatically.