Since the sixties, many methods have been developed in text analysisarea; theoretical approaches and applications realized on the diverse textshave demonstrated that it is possible to look at the texts from differentperspectives. Textlinguistics, which began with beyond sentence studies andis one of these theoretical approaches, developed its own research methods.Textlinguistics has textual standards such as cohesion, coherence,intentionality, situationalty, acceptability, informativity, intertextuality.Cohesion and coherence from these standards are most commonly referredstandards to demonstrate main structure. While cohesion is related tomicrostructure of the text that is linguistic relations between sequentialutterances, coherence is related to macrostructure of the text that is logicalrelations providing perception of the utterances of the text in a semanticunity.Literary texts are texts in which the best samples of the language use areexposed. They are different from the other text type because they are texts inwhich an indirect and implicit language is used. They have a special meaningabundance, which cannot be analysed in first reading. As a sample of literarytext, stories are laconic and brief texts, which can be read in a single sitting.In a story, occurred events or ones that may occur are narrated in a certaintime and place depending on people. It is separated from the novel and othernarrative types because it is short, has a simple plot, evokes a single andintense effect through an important event or scene and gives place to theminimum number of characters.The stories are text types that narrate things by symbolic substructures intheir deep structures that their authors didn t tell or could not tell in theirsurface structures. That is why listening a short story text correspondsdecoding the code of the text encoded by its author. The person performingread activity when making sense of the text in parallel to his/her own worldknowledge he/she will use the methods to make sense of the text that textanalysis theories have presented. In this way, the reader can decode thesemantic and aesthetic code of the text that its author created for his/her ownpurposes and can communicate directly its author.The stories are text types that have their own aesthetic and technicalstructure and that can be used in language teaching. In Turkish teaching, theconfrontation of the students with well-fictionalized original texts reflectingour cultural structure in which the aesthetic use samples of our language areexposed and their understanding and interpreting them are very important.Texlinguistics provides some tips for detecting and interpreting of these textswithin the text weave. The students who can detect the text get pleasure fromreading texts, the sense of wonder that occur in students for plot increasestheir read requests. In addition, shortness of the texts is an increasing featureof the participation of the students in reading activities. Because they areliterary they have own linguistic structure and stylistic features. For example,as they are texts in which symbolic connotations of the words and rhetoricare used in addition to denotations of the words, the students will facedifferent language use examples and their vocabulary will increase. Inparallel, the students will express themselves verbally or in writing.In this context, in this study, Refik Halit Karay s short story titled GaripBir Hediye has been analysed as a sample of textlinguistic analysis. RefikHalit Karay was famous for his storybook titled Memleket Hikayelericontaining traces of life in exile in Anatolia and pioneered the opening of theTurkish literature to Anatolia. While analysing story, moving from Halliday Hassan (1976) and Beaugrande-Dressler (1981), firstly, an exemplarytemplate has been formed for the basic elements of the text and within thistemplate the text has been tried to read and interpret. While analysing text,moving from cohesive elements of the surface structure of the text such asreiteration, collocation, reference, replacement and ellipsis, the layers ofmeaning in the deep structure of the text have been reached. At the sametime, this study has been presented as a sample of holistic reading. Thisarticle consists of three sections. In the first section, the story has beenevaluated according to microstructural elements of the text. In the secondsection, the story has been evaluated for the macro structural standards and inthe third; text has been tried to read holistically for the layers of meaning inthe deep structure of the text.