Introduction to Text Linguistics

Syllabus

1. Text and textuality, text as a product and a process, the standards of textuality

2. Cohesion - the classical approach (cohesive ties, reference, grammatical cohesion, lexical cohesion, lexico-grammatical cohesion, implicit signals of cohesion)

3. Cohesion - lexical patterns

4. Coherence; bridging assumption (inference); text colonies

5. Coherence: information structure

6. Intentionality and acceptability

7. Situationality

8. Intertextuality

9. Informativity

10. Corpora and text analysis

Annotation

The course provides an introduction to some key concepts and topics in text linguistics, focussing on the ?standards of textuality?: cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, situationality, intertextuality and informativity. A variety of examples based on authentic language data (mostly written texts) will be analysed.