Text and discourse linguistics
Article outline
- 1.On terminology
- 2.Historical overview
- 3.Important fields of study
- 3.1Information structure
- 3.2Cohesion
- 3.3Coherence
- 3.4Grounding
- 3.5Discourse types and genres
- 4.Other trends
- 5.Applications
- 5.1Practical applications
- 5.2Acquisitional and diachronic studies
- 6.Final remarks
-
Notes
-
References
References (127)
References
Anscombre, J.-C. and O. Ducrot. 1983. L’ argumentation dans la langue. Mardaga.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Ariel, M. 1990. Accessing noun-phrase antecedents. Routledge.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bates, E. 1976. Language and context. Academic Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bauman, R. and C. L. Briggs. 1990. Poetics and performance as critical perspectives on language and social life. Annual review of anthropology 19: 59–88. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
De Beaugrande, R. 1980. Text, discourse, and process. Ablex.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
De Beaugrande, R. 1982. The story of grammars and the grammar of stories. Journal of Pragmatics 6: 383–422. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
De Beaugrande, R. and W. Dressler. 1981. Introduction to text linguistics. Longman. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Benveniste, E. 1966. Problèmes de linguistique générale. Gallimard.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bhatia, V. K. 1993. Analysing genre. Longman.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Biber, D. 1988. Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge University Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Biber, D. 1989. A typology of English texts. Linguistics 27: 3–43. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Björklund, M. 1993. Narrative strategies in Čechov's ‘The steppe’. Åbo Akademi University Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Blakemore, D. 1992. Understanding utterances. Oxford.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Blum-Kulka, S. et al. (eds) 1989. Cross-cultural pragmatics. Ablex.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bolinger, D. 1952. Linear modification. Publications of the Modern Language Association 67: 1117–1144. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Brazil, D. et al. 1980. Discourse intonation and language teaching. Longman.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Brown, G. and G. Yule. 1983. Discourse analysis. Cambridge University Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Caffi, C. and R. W. Janney (eds) 1994. Involvement in language. Special issue of Journal of Pragmatics 22 (3/4).![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Carroll, J. B. 1960. Vectors of prose style. In T. A. Sebeok ed. Style in Language: 283–292. MIT Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Chafe, W. L. 1976. Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics, and point of view. In C. N. Li ed. Subject and Topic: 25–55. Academic Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Chafe, W. L. 1980. The deployment of consciousness in the production of a narrative. In W. L. Chafe ed. The pear stories: 9–50. Ablex.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Chafe, W. L. 1982. Integration and involvement in speaking, writing, and oral literature. In D. Tannen ed. Spoken and written language: 35–53. Ablex.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Chafe, W. L. 1994. Discourse, consciousness and time. University of Chicago Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Charolles, M. 1981. Coherence as a principle in the interpretation of discourse. Text 3: 71–99.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Chvany, C. V. 1985. Foregrounding, ‘Transitivity’, saliency (in sequential and non-sequential prose). Essays in Poetics 10: 1–27.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Clancy, P. M. 1980. The acquisition of narrative discourse. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Clyne, M. 1987. Cultural differences in the organization of academic texts: English and german. Journal of Pragmatics 11: 211–247. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Connor, U. and A. M. Johns (eds). 1990. Coherence in writing. TESOL.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Connor, U. and R. B. Kaplan (eds) 1987. Writing across languages. Addison-Wesley.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Cook, G. 1989. Discourse. Oxford University Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Coulthard, M. 1977. An introduction to discourse analysis. Longman.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Crystal, D. and D. Davy. 1969. Investigating English style. Longman. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Culioli, A. 1990. Pour une linguistique de l’ énonciation. Ophrys.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Danes, F. 1974. Functional sentence perspective and the organization of the text. In F. Danes ed. Papers on Functional Sentence Perspective: 106–128. Academia. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Van Dijk, T. A. 1977. Text and context. Longman.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Van Dijk, T. A. 1980. Macrostructures. Erlbaum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Van Dijk, T. A. (ed). 1985. Handbook of discourse analysis, 4 vols. Academic Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Van Dijk, T. A. and W. Kintsch. 1983. Strategies of discourse comprehension. Academic Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Drew, P. and J. Heritage (eds) 1992. Talk at work. Cambridge University Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Ducrot, O. 1984. Le dire et le dit. Minuit.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Duranti, A. and C. Goodwin. 1992. Rethinking context. Cambridge University Press.. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Edmondson, W. 1981. Spoken discourse. Longman.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Ehrlich, S. 1990. Point of view. Routledge.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Enkvist, N. E. 1972. Old English þa – an action marker? Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73: 90–93.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Enkvist, N. E. 1975. Tekstilingvistiikan peruskäsitteitä. Gaudeamus.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Enkvist, N. E. 1978. Coherence, pseudo-coherence, and non-coherence. In J.-O. Östman ed. 109–128. Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Enkvist, N. E. 1981. Experiential iconicism in text strategy. Text 1: 97–111. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Enkvist, N. E. 1987. A note towards the definition of text strategy. Zeitschrift für phonetik, sprachwissenschaft und kommunikationsforschung 40: 19–27. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Enkvist, N. E. 1989. Connexity, interpretability, universes of discourse, and text worlds.’ In S. Allén ed. Possible worlds in humanities, arts and sciences: 162–186. Walter de Gruyter.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Ervin-Tripp, S., J. Guo and M. Lampert. 1990. Politeness and persuasion in children's control acts. Journal of pragmatics 14: 307–331. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Fernandez, M. M. J. 1994. Les particules énonciatives dans la construction du discours. Presses University de France.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Firbas, J. 1959. Thoughts on the communicative function of the verb in English, German and Czech. Brno studies in English 1: 39–68.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Fleischman, S. 1990. Tense and narrativity. Routledge. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Galtung, J. 1979. Essays in methodology2. Ejlers.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Genette, G. 1972. Figures III. Seuil.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Gerhardt, J. 1991. The meaning and use of the modals hafta, needto and wanna in children’s speech. Journal of Pragmatics 16: 531–590. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Givón, T. (ed). 1989. Mind, code and context. Erlbaum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Givón, T. (ed). 1984 1990. Syntax, 2 vols. John Benjamins. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Grimes, J. E. 1975. The thread of discourse. Mouton. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Gumperz, J. J. 1982. Discourse strategies. Cambridge University Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M. A. K. 1967. Notes on transitivity and theme in English, part 2. Journal of linguistics 3: 199–244. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M. A. K. 1978. Language as social semiotic. Edward Arnold.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M. A. K. 1985. An introduction to functional grammar. Edward Arnold.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M. A. K. and R. Hasan. 1976. Cohesion in English. Longman.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Harris, Z. 1952. Discourse analysis. Language 28: 1–30. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Hoey, M. 1983. On the surface of discourse. Allen and Unwin.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Hoey, M. 1991. Patterns of lexis in text. Oxford University Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Hoey, M. 1995. Patterns of lexis beyond text. In B. Wârvik et al. (eds.) Organization in discourse: University of Turku.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Hopper, P. J. and S. A. Thompson. 1980. Transitivity in grammar and discourse. Language 56: 251–299. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Hovy, E. 1988. Generating natural language under pragmatic constraints. Erlbaum. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Kaplan, R. B. 1966. Cultural thought patterns in intercultural education. Language learning 16: 1–20. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Kaplan, R. B. 1987. Cultural thought patterns revisited. In U. Connor and R. B. Kaplan (eds.) 9–21.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C. 1990/1992/1994. Les interactions verbales, 3 vols. Colin.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Kinneavy, J. L. 1971. A theory of discourse. Prentice-Hall.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Kristeva, J. 1969. Semeiotikè. Seuil.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Kytö, M. 1991. Manual to the diachronic part of the Helsinki Corpus of English texts. University of Helsinki.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Labov, W. 1972. Language in the inner city. University of Pennsylvania Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Lambrecht, K. 1994. Information structure and sentence form. Cambridge University Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Levinson, S. C. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Longacre, R. E. 1976. An anatomy of speech notions. Peter de Ridder Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Longacre, R. E. 1983. The grammar of discourse. Plenum Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Lundquist, L. 1983. L'analyse textuelle. CEDIC.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Maingueneau, D. 1991. L'analyse du discours. Hachette.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Martin, J. R. 2006. Genre, ideology and intertextuality: A systemic functional perspective. Linguistics and the human sciences 2: 275–298.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Mctear, M. 1979. “Hey! I've got something to tell you”: A study of the initiation of conversational exchanges by preschool children. Journal of pragmatics 3: 321–336. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Morris, C. W. 1938. Foundations of the theory of signs. In O. Neurath et al. (eds.) International encyclopedia of unified science 1: 78–137. University of Chicago Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Nunan, D. 1993. Introducing discourse analysis. Penguin.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Ochs, E. (ed) 1989. The pragmatics of affect. Text 9.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Ochs Keenan, E. and B. B. Schieffelin. 1976. Topic as a discourse notion. In C. N. Li (ed.) Subject and Topic: 335–384. Academic Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Ochs, E. and B. B. Schieffelin (eds) 1979. Developmental pragmatics. Academic Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Ong, W. J. 1982. Orality and literacy. Methuen. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Osgood, C. E. 1980. Lectures on language performance. Springer. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Östman, J.-O. 1981. You know. John Benjamins. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Östman, J.-O. 1986. Pragmatics as implicitness. University of California, Berkeley. PhD dissertation.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Östman, J.-O. (ed) 1978. Semantics and cohesion. Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Petöfi, J. S. 1989. Constitution and meaning. In M.-E. Conte et al. (eds.) Text and discourse connectedness: John Benjamins. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Di Pietro, R. J. (ed) 1982. Linguistics and the professions. Ablex.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Polanyi, L. 1981. What stories can tell us about their teller’s world. Poetics Today 2: 97–112. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Prince, E. 1981. Toward a taxonomy of given-new information. In P. Cole (ed.) Radical Pragmatics: 223–255. Academic Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Purves, A. C. (ed) 1988. Writing across languages and cultures. Sage.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Régent, O. 1985. A comparative approach to the learning of specialized written discourse. In P. Riley (ed.) Discourse and Learning: 105–120. Longman.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Roulet, E. et al. 1985. L’articulation du discours en français contemporain. Peter Lang.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Schiffrin, D. 1987. Discourse markers. Cambridge University Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Schiffrin, D. 1994. Approaches to discourse. Blackwell.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Schourup, L. C. 1985. Common discourse particles in English conversation. Garland.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Sherzer, J. 1987. A discourse-centered approach to language and culture. American Anthropologist 892: 295–309. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Sinclair, J. M. and R. M. Coulthard. 1975. Towards an analysis of discourse. Oxford University Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Stubbs, M. 1983. Discourse analysis. Blackwell.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Swales, J. 1990. Genre analysis. Cambridge.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Verschueren, J. 1987. Pragmatics as a theory of linguistic adaptation. IPrA working document 1.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Virtanen, T. 1992a. Discourse functions of adverbial placement in English. Åbo Akademi University Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Virtanen, T. 1992b. Issues of text typology. Text 12: 293–310. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Wårvik, B. 2002. On grounding in narrative: A survey of criteria and models. Åbo Akademi University.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Werlich, E. 1976. A text grammar of English. Quelle and Meyer.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Widdowson, H. G. 1973. Directions in the teaching of discourse. In S. P. Corder and E. Roulet (eds.) Theoretical Linguistic Models in Applied Linguistics: 65–76. AIMAV and Didier.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Widdowson, H. G. 1973/1979. Explorations in applied linguistics. Oxford University Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)