TEXTLINGUSTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT STORY SAND BY CONOR CORDEROY

A text is not a string of sentences or a simple grammatical unity, but rather it is semantic unity. The unity that it has is the unity of meaning in context, a texture that expresses the fact that it relates as a whole to the environment in which it emerged. Text linguistics is an applied analysis method based on a theoretical foundation that attempts to reveal the semantic structures of literary texts by examining them from the surface structure to the deep structure. In the text linguistic analysis of a literary text, title, repetitive words that are keywords, topical sentences, conclusion sentence, inferences from implicit expressions, motifs and themes are main clues, that is, main surface structure elements, leading to real meaning of the text. In addition to linguistic context, stylistic features of the writer, non-linguistic context are elements that help identify layers of meaning. In this study, Sand, which is a short story written by the British writer Conor Corderoy from an ecocritical perspective, will be examined in terms of cohesion and coherence, which are basic text linguistic criteria. The central topics of the short story Sand include climate change, personal and familial struggles, and societal responses to environmental challenges. The melting of glaciers and global warming, as well as how these events will affect people in the future, are also discussed in the story. With this analysis, the messages placed by the author in the deep structure will be reached and the action he aims for with his text will be determined. Keywords: Text linguistics, ecocriticism, Sand, Conor Corderoy.