Einige Prinzipien des Textaufbaus

The form and structuring of an ordinary-language text (say the description of an instruction or a story) are largely pre-determined by the quaestio, the explicit or implicit question that the text as a whole is seeking to answer. This is the pilot concept that the presents study sets out to examine and substantiate with reference to an extensive fund of material collected under controlled conditions. A further concern is to clarify what role is to be attributed to cognitive functions in text production and how the various conditioning factors interact in this process. The results of the empirical study demonstrate that strictly modular or sequential models of speech production are not adequate to the task of mapping the interplay of speech planning processes.