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The article offers a short review of the history of text studies undertaken by different branches of linguistic sciences and focuses on the possibilities of the text in the foreign language classroom aiming at the development of the students' communicative competence. The text is characterized as a form of language units actualization, as structural and semantic entity giving an insight into the mechanism for sense integration in the processes of text production and comprehension. The text is also described as a base for the development of correlating receptive and productive skills of the students.

ABSTRACT- Conceptual artist Catalina Parra refers to her work as «reconstructions» altering found images from the mass media using a scissors- and-paste technique characteristic of collage. Parra makes use of the daily flow of images in order to halt or reverse the notion of the ephemeral and to challenge the viewer to rethink the social, economic, political, and even philosophical issues to which these images refer. She has contributed to the ways in which found texts and images can be reinvested with new meanings relevant to contemporary problems.

Semiotic Landscapes is an exciting addition to the study of linguistic landscapes. It looks at how landscape generates meaning and combines three major areas of scholarly interest each concerned with central dimensions of contemporary life: language and visual discourse, spatial practices, and also the changes bought about by global capitalism and ever increasing mediatization. The editors look at: the textual/discursive construction of place; the use of space as a semiotic resource; the extent to which these processes are shaped by wider economic and political re-orderings of post-industrial

Artist's Statement – Topography of Myth As a border walker I am continually exploring questions around the inherent meaning of fiction and myth, authority, power and cultural concepts of origin, using various methods in my practice as means to engage, wandering between installation, object, photography, printmaking and artists' books, the inherent materiality being essential. Significantly, the relationship between the permanence of the porcelain, with the vulnerability of paper, hair and other organic material. Using a methodology of walking, whether drifting or purposefully revisiting certain places, I attempt to explore notions of genius loci, examining the topography of myth in order to map a forensics of transgressive happenings as essential to the human condition. In combining concepts of the stratalogical unconscious with the lay of the land, my practice continues to focus on notions of heterotopia, interweaving the psychogeographic experience with elements of esoteric initiation while questioning the shifting relations between the sacred and the profane in both urban and rural environments. My more recent work has furthermore engaged with feminist notions of the personal as political, taking the standpoint of an 'other' regarding the visceral experience of the witch in relation to nature and site, as interpreted through ritual performance. June 2018