New Approaches in Text Linguistics

Editors
Sylvie Mellet | CNRS (Nice)
Dominique Longrée | University of Liege & FUSL (Brussels)
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Over the last years, research in text linguistics has yielded insights into different levels of methodological reflection and practice, resulting in new issues for investigation. On the one hand, the development of computerized corpora and “hypertextual” reading has reminded researchers that the text is a complex object, both linear and network-like, and largely shaped by its context: how can analysis grapple with such a complexity? On the other hand, the processing of computerized corpora raises new methodological questions about the textual units chosen for analysis or about the use of grammatical categories as tools for stylistic and generic characterization of texts.

This volume hopes to offer some constructive reflection on these challenging issues. The selected papers either demonstrate the value of some innovative method of analysis through concrete applications, or develop strong and well-argued epistemological positions, illustrated with examples. Interdisciplinary contributions are also represented: when dealing with “regulating concepts” such as “corpus”, “inter-/co-text”, “speech genre”, etc., various domains including stylistics, genetic criticism, contrastive research, didactic approaches, statistical linguistics and discourse analysis share a common interest with text linguistics.

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 23] 2009.  214 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Text Linguistics: Some new Approaches
Dominique Longrée and Sylvie Mellet
1–5
Passages and Path within the Intertext
François Rastier
7–29
Prototypicity and Textual Analysis
Rosalice Pinto
31–44
Textual Genetics and Manuscript in Word Processing. A new Definition of the Text? Essay on the "Avant-texte" of a short story by Pascal Quignard
Irène Fenoglio
45–61
The Genesis of Texts: Planning and Interior Language
Olga Anokhina
63–72
From Contrastive Text Linguistics to Didactic Applications – and back again
Lita Lundquist
73–90
Text Linguistics and Navigation: Questions about Text
Javier Couto and Jean-Luc Minel
91–102
Text and Hypertext: Function, Reading, Learning
Jean-Marc Defays
103–114
Text Structure and Referential Choice in Narrative: The Anaphoric Use of the Latin Demonstrative ille
Caroline H.M. Kroon
115–132
Discourse Modes and Bases: The Use of Tenses in Vergil’s Aeneid and Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Suzanne Adema
133–146
Which Structural Markers to Identify in Texts? Theoretical and Methodological Aspects. Application to the first Chapter of the European Constitution
Gaëll Guibert
147–160
Syntactical Motifs and Textual Structures: Considerations based on the Study of a Latin historical Corpus
Sylvie Mellet and Dominique Longrée
161–174
Multidimensional Analysis based on morpho-lexical Features: The Example of a 19th Century regional Press Corpus along with its Columns
Virginie Léthier
175–190
Language/Discourse: Textual Analysis, Computer and Statistics
Jean-Marie Viprey
191–206
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN015000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric