Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. On the Development of Text Grammar 6
5. The Semiotic Framework of Textlinguistics 21
6. A Formal Semiotic Text Theory as an Integrated Theory of Natural Language (Methodological Remarks) 35
7. Some Problems of Communicative Text Theories 47
8. Cognitive Psychology and Discourse: Recalling and Summarizing Stories 61
9. On Some Questions and Ambiguities in Conversation 81
10. Field Analysis Of Discourse 103
11. Narrative Studies in Oral Texts 123
12. Textlinguistic Approaches to Written Works of Art 133
13. French Structuralist Views on Narrative Grammar 155
14. Stylistics and Text Linguistics 174
15. Discourse Analysis in The Framework of Zellig S. Harris 191
16. Functional Sentence Perspective and Textlinguistics 212
17. Text in the Systemic-Functional Model 228
18. Substitutional Text Linguistics 247
19. Contributions to Textlinguistics in the Soviet Union 261
20. Generative Discourse Analysis in America 275
21. List of Contributors 295
22. Index 296