Text linguistics is concerned with the analysis of linguistic regularities and constitutive features of texts. It has developed since the 1960s from structuralist foundations and has been integrated into the research of stylistics and rhetoric. This course will introduce you to the concepts of cohesion and coherence as well as intentionality, informativity, situationality and intertextuality. It will profoundly deepen your knowledge about texts and will enable you to apply this knowledge to them. Preliminary reading: Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (Any edition will do!) |
