Ключевые слова: первый план, фон, выдвижение, выделенность, нарратив, перевод.
The monograph accumulates the results of research in the fi eld of grounding in a narrative, foregrounding and backgrounding techniques, creating salience in a text and drawing reader’s attention. The fi rst part of the book (chapters 1-5) focuses on the development and interaction of Theory of Grounding with other theories concerning similar issues and proposed by Russian and foreign scientists, including many papers that have not been translated into Russian. The other part of the monograph (chapter 6) presents various devices of foregrounding / backgrounding in numerous original and translated Russian narratives.
Key words: foreground, background, grounding, salience, narrative, translation.