Text linguistics

Robert de Beaugrande
Table of contents

A decisive step in the rise of modern ‘Western Continental’ linguistics was to instate the central tenet that language should be considered a uniform, stable and abstract system apart from variations due to individual or social contexts and activities. The description of the language should be couched in highly general statements about the language as a whole or even in universal ones about all languages. This (Saussurean) programme inaugurated the search for the complete set of constraints upon ‘language in and for itself’ (‘langue’) without reference to the use of language (‘parole’). The constraints should cover all valid instances or sets of instances of the language.

Full-text access is restricted to subscribers. Log in to obtain additional credentials. For subscription information see Subscription & Price.

References

Baker, M., G. Francis & E. Tognini-Bonelli
1993 Text and technology. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
De Beaugrande, R.
1980 Text, discourse, and process. Ablex. Google Scholar
1984 Text production. Ablex. Google Scholar
De Beaugrande, R. & W. Dressler
1981 Introduction to text linguistics. Longman. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Bellert, I.
1970 On a condition of the coherence of texts. Semiotica 2: 335–363. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Bloomfield, L.
1933 Language. University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar
Chomsky, N.
1957 Syntactic structures. Mouton. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1965 Aspects of the theory of syntax. MIT Press. Google Scholar
Coseriu, E.
1971 Intervention in the discussion ‘Textlinguistik’. In StempelW.-D. (ed.). Beiträge zur Textlinguistik: 189–216. Fink. Google Scholar
DanešF.
1964 A three-level approach to syntax. Travaux Linguistiques de Prague 1: 225–240. Google Scholar
1970 Zur linguistischen Analyse der Textstruktur. Folia Linguistica 4: 72–78. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Van Dijk, T.
1972 Some aspects of text grammars. Mouton. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1976 Text and context. Longman. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1978 Textwissenschaft. Niemeyer. Google Scholar
1979 Macro-structures. Erlbaum. Google Scholar
Van Dijk, T
et al. 1972 Zur Bestimmung narrativer Strukturen auf der Grundlage von Textgrammatiken. Buske. Google Scholar
Van Dijk, T. & W. Kintsch
1983 Strategies of discourse comprehension. Academic Press. Google Scholar
Dressler, W.
1970 Modelle und Methoden der Textsyntax. Folia Linguistica 4: 64–71. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
(ed.) 1977 Current trends in text linguistics. De Gruyter. Google Scholar
Enkvist, N.-E.
1977 Stylistics and text linguistics. In DresslerW. (ed.). 174–190. Google Scholar
Freedle, R.
(ed.) 1977 Discourse production and comprehension. Ablex. Google Scholar
1979 New directions in discourse processing. Ablex. Google Scholar
Gülich, E.
1970 Makrosyntax der Gliederungssignale im gesprochenen Französisch. Fink. Google Scholar
Gunter, R.
1963 Elliptical sentences in American English. Lingua 12: 137–150. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Halliday, M. & R. Hasan
1976 Cohesion in English. Longman. Google Scholar
Harris, Z.
1952 Discourse analysis. Language 28: 1–30/474–494. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Hartmann, P.
1968 Zum Begriff des sprachlichen Zeichens. Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung 21: 205–222. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Harweg, R.
1968a Pronomina und Textkonstitution. Fink. Google Scholar
1968b Textanfänge in geschriebener und gesprochener Sprache. Orbis 17: 343–388. Google Scholar
Isačenko, A.
1965 Kontextbedingte Ellipse und Pronominalisierung im Deutschen. Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Volkskunde und Literaturforschung: 163–174. Akademie. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Isenberg, H.
1970 Der Begriff ‘Text’ in der Sprachtheorie. Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR. Google Scholar
Kallmeyer, W., W. Klein & R. Meyer-Hermann & K. Netzer & H.-J. Siebert
1971 Lektürenkolleg: Einführung in die Textlinguistik. Universität Bielefeld. Google Scholar
Longacre, R.
1990 Storyline concerns and word order typology in East and West Africa. UCLA Dept. of Linguistics. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Palek, B.
1969 Cross-reference. Charles University Press. Google Scholar
Petöfi, J
1978 A formal semiotic text theory as an integrated theory of natural language. In Dressler, W. (ed.). 34–46. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
De Saussure, F.
(1966) [1916] Course in general linguistics. McGraw-Hill. Google Scholar
Schmidt, S. J.
1973 Texttheorie. Fink. Google Scholar
(ed.) 1976 Pragmatik 2. Fink. Google Scholar
Sinclair, J. M.
1992a Priorities in discourse analysis. In CoulthardM. (ed.). Advances in spoken discourse analysis: 79–88. Routledge. Google Scholar
1992b The automatic analysis of corpora. In SvartlikJ. (ed.). Directions in corpus linguistics: 379–397. Mouton de Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1994 Large-corpus linguistics at the crossroads(video). University of Vienna. Google Scholar
Steinitz, R.
1971 Nominale Proformen. In KallmeyerW et al. (eds.). 375–397. Google Scholar
Stubbs, M.
1993 British traditions in text analysis. In BakerM et al. (eds.). 1–33. Google Scholar
Weinrich, H.
1964 Tempus. Kohlhammer. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1967 Syntax als Dialektik. Poetica 1: 109–126. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1969 Textlinguistik. Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik 1: 61–74. Google Scholar
1976 Sprachen in Texten. Klett. Google Scholar