Cover not available
Part of
Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 1376–1393

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
Published online: 3 October 2022
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.tex4
References (127)
References
Anscombre, J.-C. and O. Ducrot. 1983. L’ argumentation dans la langue. Mardaga.Google Scholar
Ariel, M. 1990. Accessing noun-phrase antecedents. Routledge.Google Scholar
Auer, P. and A. Di Luzio (eds) 1992. The contextualization of language. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Bates, E. 1976. Language and context. Academic Press.Google Scholar
Bamberg, M. (ed). 2007. Narrative – State of the art. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
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 logoGoogle Scholar
De Beaugrande, R. 1980. Text, discourse, and process. Ablex.Google Scholar
1982. The story of grammars and the grammar of stories. Journal of Pragmatics 6: 383–422. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
De Beaugrande, R. and W. Dressler. 1981. Introduction to text linguistics. Longman. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Benveniste, E. 1966. Problèmes de linguistique générale. Gallimard.Google Scholar
Bhatia, V. K. 1993. Analysing genre. Longman.Google Scholar
Biber, D. 1988. Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1989. A typology of English texts. Linguistics 27: 3–43. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Björklund, M. 1993. Narrative strategies in Čechov's ‘The steppe’. Åbo Akademi University Press.Google Scholar
Blakemore, D. 1992. Understanding utterances. Oxford.Google Scholar
Blum-Kulka, S. et al. (eds) 1989. Cross-cultural pragmatics. Ablex.Google Scholar
Bolinger, D. 1952. Linear modification. Publications of the Modern Language Association 67: 1117–1144. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Brazil, D. et al. 1980. Discourse intonation and language teaching. Longman.Google Scholar
Brown, G. and G. Yule. 1983. Discourse analysis. Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Caffi, C. and R. W. Janney (eds) 1994. Involvement in language. Special issue of Journal of Pragmatics 22 (3/4).Google Scholar
Carroll, J. B. 1960. Vectors of prose style. In T. A. Sebeok ed. Style in Language: 283–292. MIT Press.Google Scholar
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
1980. The deployment of consciousness in the production of a narrative. In W. L. Chafe ed. The pear stories: 9–50. Ablex.Google Scholar
1982. Integration and involvement in speaking, writing, and oral literature. In D. Tannen ed. Spoken and written language: 35–53. Ablex.Google Scholar
1994. Discourse, consciousness and time. University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Charolles, M. 1981. Coherence as a principle in the interpretation of discourse. Text 3: 71–99.Google Scholar
Chvany, C. V. 1985. Foregrounding, ‘Transitivity’, saliency (in sequential and non-sequential prose). Essays in Poetics 10: 1–27.Google Scholar
Clancy, P. M. 1980. The acquisition of narrative discourse. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley.Google Scholar
Clyne, M. 1987. Cultural differences in the organization of academic texts: English and german. Journal of Pragmatics 11: 211–247. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Connor, U. and A. M. Johns (eds). 1990. Coherence in writing. TESOL.Google Scholar
Connor, U. and R. B. Kaplan (eds) 1987. Writing across languages. Addison-Wesley.Google Scholar
Cook, G. 1989. Discourse. Oxford University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Coulthard, M. 1977. An introduction to discourse analysis. Longman.Google Scholar
Crystal, D. and D. Davy. 1969. Investigating English style. Longman. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Culioli, A. 1990. Pour une linguistique de l’ énonciation. Ophrys.Google Scholar
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 logoGoogle Scholar
Van Dijk, T. A. 1977. Text and context. Longman.Google Scholar
1980. Macrostructures. Erlbaum.Google Scholar
(ed). 1985. Handbook of discourse analysis, 4 vols. Academic Press.Google Scholar
Van Dijk, T. A. and W. Kintsch. 1983. Strategies of discourse comprehension. Academic Press.Google Scholar
Drew, P. and J. Heritage (eds) 1992. Talk at work. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Ducrot, O. 1984. Le dire et le dit. Minuit.Google Scholar
Duranti, A. and C. Goodwin. 1992. Rethinking context. Cambridge University Press.. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Edmondson, W. 1981. Spoken discourse. Longman.Google Scholar
Ehrlich, S. 1990. Point of view. Routledge.Google Scholar
Enkvist, N. E. 1972. Old English þa – an action marker? Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73: 90–93.Google Scholar
1975. Tekstilingvistiikan peruskäsitteitä. Gaudeamus.Google Scholar
1978. Coherence, pseudo-coherence, and non-coherence. In J.-O. Östman ed. 109–128. Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation.Google Scholar
1981. Experiential iconicism in text strategy. Text 1: 97–111. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1987. A note towards the definition of text strategy. Zeitschrift für phonetik, sprachwissenschaft und kommunikationsforschung 40: 19–27. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
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
Ervin-Tripp, S., J. Guo and M. Lampert. 1990. Politeness and persuasion in children's control acts. Journal of pragmatics 14: 307–331. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Fernandez, M. M. J. 1994. Les particules énonciatives dans la construction du discours. Presses University de France.Google Scholar
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
Fleischman, S. 1990. Tense and narrativity. Routledge. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Galtung, J. 1979. Essays in methodology2. Ejlers.Google Scholar
Genette, G. 1972. Figures III. Seuil.Google Scholar
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 logoGoogle Scholar
Givón, T. (ed). 1983. Topic continuity in discourse. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
(ed). 1989. Mind, code and context. Erlbaum.Google Scholar
(ed). 1984 1990. Syntax, 2 vols. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Grimes, J. E. 1975. The thread of discourse. Mouton. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Gumperz, J. J. 1982. Discourse strategies. Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Haiman, J. (ed) 1985. Iconicity in syntax. John Benjamins.. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Halliday, M. A. K. 1967. Notes on transitivity and theme in English, part 2. Journal of linguistics 3: 199–244. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1978. Language as social semiotic. Edward Arnold.Google Scholar
1985. An introduction to functional grammar. Edward Arnold.Google Scholar
Halliday, M. A. K. and R. Hasan. 1976. Cohesion in English. Longman.Google Scholar
Harris, Z. 1952. Discourse analysis. Language 28: 1–30. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Herring, S. C. (ed) 1996. Computer-mediated communication. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Hoey, M. 1983. On the surface of discourse. Allen and Unwin.Google Scholar
1991. Patterns of lexis in text. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
1995. Patterns of lexis beyond text. In B. Wârvik et al. (eds.) Organization in discourse: University of Turku.Google Scholar
Hopper, P. J. and S. A. Thompson. 1980. Transitivity in grammar and discourse. Language 56: 251–299. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Hovy, E. 1988. Generating natural language under pragmatic constraints. Erlbaum. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Kaplan, R. B. 1966. Cultural thought patterns in intercultural education. Language learning 16: 1–20. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1987. Cultural thought patterns revisited. In U. Connor and R. B. Kaplan (eds.) 9–21.Google Scholar
Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C. 1990/1992/1994. Les interactions verbales, 3 vols. Colin.Google Scholar
Kinneavy, J. L. 1971. A theory of discourse. Prentice-Hall.Google Scholar
Kristeva, J. 1969. Semeiotikè. Seuil.Google Scholar
Kytö, M. 1991. Manual to the diachronic part of the Helsinki Corpus of English texts. University of Helsinki.Google Scholar
Labov, W. 1972. Language in the inner city. University of Pennsylvania Press.Google Scholar
Lambrecht, K. 1994. Information structure and sentence form. Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2004. On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions. In M. Fried and J.-O. Östman (eds.) Construction grammar in a cross-language perspective. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Levinson, S. C. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Longacre, R. E. 1976. An anatomy of speech notions. Peter de Ridder Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1983. The grammar of discourse. Plenum Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Lundquist, L. 1983. L'analyse textuelle. CEDIC.Google Scholar
Maingueneau, D. 1991. L'analyse du discours. Hachette.Google Scholar
Mann, W. C. et al. 1992. Rhetorical structure theory and text analysis. In W. C. Mann and S. A. Thompson (eds.) Discourse description: 39–78. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Martin, J. R. 2006. Genre, ideology and intertextuality: A systemic functional perspective. Linguistics and the human sciences 2: 275–298.Google Scholar
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 logoGoogle Scholar
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
Nunan, D. 1993. Introducing discourse analysis. Penguin.Google Scholar
Ochs, E. (ed) 1989. The pragmatics of affect. Text 9.Google Scholar
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
Ochs, E. and B. B. Schieffelin (eds) 1979. Developmental pragmatics. Academic Press.Google Scholar
Ong, W. J. 1982. Orality and literacy. Methuen. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Osgood, C. E. 1980. Lectures on language performance. Springer. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Östman, J.-O. 1981. You know. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1986. Pragmatics as implicitness. University of California, Berkeley. PhD dissertation.Google Scholar
1989. Testing iconicity. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 4: 145–163. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
(ed) 1978. Semantics and cohesion. Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation.Google Scholar
Petöfi, J. S. 1989. Constitution and meaning. In M.-E. Conte et al. (eds.) Text and discourse connectedness: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Di Pietro, R. J. (ed) 1982. Linguistics and the professions. Ablex.Google Scholar
Polanyi, L. 1981. What stories can tell us about their teller’s world. Poetics Today 2: 97–112. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Prince, E. 1981. Toward a taxonomy of given-new information. In P. Cole (ed.) Radical Pragmatics: 223–255. Academic Press.Google Scholar
Purves, A. C. (ed) 1988. Writing across languages and cultures. Sage.Google Scholar
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
Renkema, J. 1993. Discourse studies. John Benjamins.. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Roulet, E. et al. 1985. L’articulation du discours en français contemporain. Peter Lang.Google Scholar
Schiffrin, D. 1987. Discourse markers. Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1994. Approaches to discourse. Blackwell.Google Scholar
Schourup, L. C. 1985. Common discourse particles in English conversation. Garland.Google Scholar
Sherzer, J. 1987. A discourse-centered approach to language and culture. American Anthropologist 892: 295–309. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Sinclair, J. M. and R. M. Coulthard. 1975. Towards an analysis of discourse. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Stubbs, M. 1983. Discourse analysis. Blackwell.Google Scholar
Swales, J. 1990. Genre analysis. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Traugott, E. C. 1982. From propositional to textual and expressive meanings. In W. P. Lehmann and Y. Malkiel (eds.) Perspectives on historical linguistics: 245–271. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Verschueren, J. 1987. Pragmatics as a theory of linguistic adaptation. IPrA working document 1.Google Scholar
Virtanen, T. 1992a. Discourse functions of adverbial placement in English. Åbo Akademi University Press.Google Scholar
1992b. Issues of text typology. Text 12: 293–310. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Wårvik, B. 1990. On the history of grounding markers in English narrative. In H. Anderson and K. Koerner (eds.) Historical linguistics 1987. 531–542. John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2002. On grounding in narrative: A survey of criteria and models. Åbo Akademi University.Google Scholar
Werlich, E. 1976. A text grammar of English. Quelle and Meyer.Google Scholar
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
1973/1979. Explorations in applied linguistics. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar