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Text linguistics

Index Text linguistics

Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. [1]

23 relations: Ambiguity, Causality, Clause, Coherence (linguistics), Cohesion (linguistics), Communications system, Consistency, Context (language use), Conversation, Discourse analysis, Explicit knowledge, Grammar, History of linguistics, Human communication, Intertextuality, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Robert de Beaugrande, Semiotics, Sentence (linguistics), Tacit knowledge, Textuality, Wolfgang U. Dressler.

Ambiguity

Ambiguity is a type of meaning in which several interpretations are plausible.

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Causality

Causality (also referred to as causation, or cause and effect) is what connects one process (the cause) with another process or state (the effect), where the first is partly responsible for the second, and the second is partly dependent on the first.

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Clause

In grammar, a clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition.

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Coherence (linguistics)

Coherence in linguistics is what makes a text semantically meaningful.

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Cohesion (linguistics)

Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning.

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Communications system

In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole.

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Consistency

In classical deductive logic, a consistent theory is one that does not contain a contradiction.

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Context (language use)

In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind.

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Conversation

Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people.

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Discourse analysis

Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is a general term for a number of approaches to analyze written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event.

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Explicit knowledge

Explicit knowledge is knowledge that can be readily articulated, codified, accessed and verbalized.

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Grammar

In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

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History of linguistics

Linguistics, as a study, endeavors to describe and explain the human faculty of language.

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Human communication

Human communication, or anthroposemiotics, is the field dedicated to understanding how humans communicate.

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Intertextuality

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

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Robert de Beaugrande

Robert-Alain de Beaugrande (1946 – June 2008) was a text linguist and discourse analyst, one of the leading figures of the Continental tradition in the discipline.

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Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.

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Sentence (linguistics)

In non-functional linguistics, a sentence is a textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked.

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Tacit knowledge

Tacit knowledge (as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it.

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Textuality

In literary theory, textuality comprises all of the attributes that distinguish the communicative content under analysis as an object of study.

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Wolfgang U. Dressler

Wolfgang U. Dressler (born 22 December 1939) is a polyglot Austrian professor of linguistics at the University of Vienna.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_linguistics

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