Text and discourse linguistics

Jan-Ola Östman & Tuija Virtanen
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When in the late 1960s syntacticians and semanticists became convinced of the usefulness of considering stretches longer than individual sentences in their analyses, at least two terms came to be used in parallel fashion: text linguistics and discourse analysis.

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