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Introduction to Text Linguistics


Introduction to
Text Linguistics


Robert-Alain de Beaugrande
Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Wolfgang Dressler
Universität Wien
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Introduction to Text Linguistics

XIV Congress of Linguists, Berlin 1987
Original 1981
Digitally reformatted 2002

Contents
0 Foreword vi
I Basic notions
Textuality. The seven standards of textuality: cohesion; coherence; intentionality;
acceptability; informativity; situationality; intertextuality. Constitutive versus regulative
principles: efficiency; effectiveness; appropriateness.
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Introduction to Text Linguistics
II. The evolution of text linguistics
Historical background of text linguistics: rhetoric; stylistics; literary studies;
anthropology; tagmemics; sociology; discourse analysis; functional sentence
perspective. Descriptive structural linguistics: system levels; Harris’s discourse
analysis; Coseriu’s work on settings; Harweg’s model of substitution; the text as a unit
above the sentence. Transformational grammar: proposals of Heidolph and Isenberg;
the Konstanz project; Petöfi’s text-structure/world-structure theory; van Dijk’s text
grammars; Mel’cuk’s text-meaning model; the evolving notion of transformation.
III. The procedural approach
Pragmatics. Systems and systemization. Description and explanation. Modularity
and interaction. Combinatorial explosion. Text as a procedural entity. Processing
ease and processing depth. Thresholds of termination. Virtual and actual systems.
ic regulation. Continuity. Stability. Problem solving: depth-first search,
breadth-first search, and means-end analysis. Mapping. Procedural attachment.
Pattern-matching. Phases of text production: planning; ideation; development;
expression; parsing; linearization and adjacency. The pha