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Nichtsprachliches als Textfaktor: Medialität, Materialität, Lokalität

  • Ulla Fix
Published/Copyright: May 26, 2008
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Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik
From the journal Volume 36 Issue 3

Abstract

Do linguistic concepts of text provide research approaches that are also suited to study literary texts? Can the category of text be applied for bridge building between linguistics and literary science in the current debate? To answer these questions, we need to first decide on one of the many text concepts developed by linguistics that is best suited to “act this problem out”.

This paper therefore addresses the criteria of textuality postulated by Beaugrande/Dressler (1981), which, initially being accepted, were later criticized, but remain inspiring. These will be examined in the spirit of Adamzik, not as criteria per se but as “descriptive dimensions”. The need to expand these dimensions will be underlined in order to cover features that are text- and genre-constitutive and have not been included so far. This in particular refers to the integration of the nonverbal – categorized according to mediality, materiality, locality – as required elements for the existence of both the text sample and of some genres. A text concept that is expanded by the nonverbal is considered a better approach to meet the particulars of literary texts and to grasp the aesthetic practice of nonliterary texts.


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Online erschienen: 2008-05-26
Erschienen im Druck: 2008-December
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