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Chapter 9 40 years of text linguistics and its didactic application in teaching French as a foreign language

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French theories on text and discourse
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Abstract

The article traces the history of Scandinavian text linguistics as it evolved over a 40year period, together with its didactic application in teaching French as a foreign language. Different structural and procedural approaches will be presented, to arrive at a model focusing more particularly on learning to read academic texts in French. At the same time, the author will show how analyzing and understanding texts does not stop with linguistics and the text itself, but links up naturally with cognitive and cultural aspects. This is illustrated by a systematic comparison of Danish and French, belonging to Germanic and Romance languages respectively; a comparison that reveals interesting differences in the way the Danish and French think and make texts. It also demonstrates the capacity of text linguistics to face fresh demands in the area of foreign language teaching, while at the same time clarifying the relationship between language, text, cognition, culture, and society.

Abstract

The article traces the history of Scandinavian text linguistics as it evolved over a 40year period, together with its didactic application in teaching French as a foreign language. Different structural and procedural approaches will be presented, to arrive at a model focusing more particularly on learning to read academic texts in French. At the same time, the author will show how analyzing and understanding texts does not stop with linguistics and the text itself, but links up naturally with cognitive and cultural aspects. This is illustrated by a systematic comparison of Danish and French, belonging to Germanic and Romance languages respectively; a comparison that reveals interesting differences in the way the Danish and French think and make texts. It also demonstrates the capacity of text linguistics to face fresh demands in the area of foreign language teaching, while at the same time clarifying the relationship between language, text, cognition, culture, and society.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Introduction Language/speech vs. text/discourse: A “family resemblance”? 1
  4. Part 1: Text-discourse links
  5. Chapter 1 Micro-level, meso-level and macro-level of textual structuring and complexity 19
  6. Chapter 2 “Framing adverbials” as markers of discourse organization 57
  7. Chapter 3 Text, discourse, cognition 77
  8. Chapter 4 From discourse analysis to analysis of discourses 95
  9. Chapter 5 Enunciator position, positioning and posture 107
  10. Part 2: Text epistemologies
  11. Chapter 6 Dissipative units 131
  12. Chapter 7 Corpus semantics, the unfinished project of Greimas’ Structural semantics 153
  13. Chapter 8 Suggestions for a diachronic text linguistics 169
  14. Chapter 9 40 years of text linguistics and its didactic application in teaching French as a foreign language 185
  15. Part 3: Epistemologies of discourse – and beyond
  16. Chapter 10 A socio-communicational model of discourse (between communication situation and individuation strategies) 205
  17. Chapter 11 Discourse, discourse analysis, and discourse genres 231
  18. Chapter 12 Integrating argumentation in discourse analysis? Problems and challenges 245
  19. Chapter 13 Linguistics and literature: Style in question 269
  20. Index nominum 279
  21. Index rerum 283
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794434-010

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Introduction Language/speech vs. text/discourse: A “family resemblance”? 1
  4. Part 1: Text-discourse links
  5. Chapter 1 Micro-level, meso-level and macro-level of textual structuring and complexity 19
  6. Chapter 2 “Framing adverbials” as markers of discourse organization 57
  7. Chapter 3 Text, discourse, cognition 77
  8. Chapter 4 From discourse analysis to analysis of discourses 95
  9. Chapter 5 Enunciator position, positioning and posture 107
  10. Part 2: Text epistemologies
  11. Chapter 6 Dissipative units 131
  12. Chapter 7 Corpus semantics, the unfinished project of Greimas’ Structural semantics 153
  13. Chapter 8 Suggestions for a diachronic text linguistics 169
  14. Chapter 9 40 years of text linguistics and its didactic application in teaching French as a foreign language 185
  15. Part 3: Epistemologies of discourse – and beyond
  16. Chapter 10 A socio-communicational model of discourse (between communication situation and individuation strategies) 205
  17. Chapter 11 Discourse, discourse analysis, and discourse genres 231
  18. Chapter 12 Integrating argumentation in discourse analysis? Problems and challenges 245
  19. Chapter 13 Linguistics and literature: Style in question 269
  20. Index nominum 279
  21. Index rerum 283
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