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An area of investigation within text linguistics, discourse grammar involves the analysis and presentation of grammatical regularities that overlap sentences in texts. In contrast to the pragmatically oriented direction of text linguistics, discourse grammar departs from a grammatical concept of text that is analogous to ‘sentence’. The object of investigation is primarily the phenomenon of cohesion, thus the syntactic-morphological connecting of texts by textphoric, recurrence, and connective.
References
Greimas, A.J. 1966. Sémantique structurale. Paris.
Longacre, R.E. 1983. The grammar of discourse. New York.
Petöfi, J.S. and H.Rieser (eds) 1973. Studies in text grammar. Dordrecht.
Rieser, H.
1978. On the development of text grammar. In W.Dressler (ed.), Current trends in textlinguistics. Berlin. 6–20.
Van Dijk, T.A. 1972. Some aspects of text grammars: a study in theoretical linguistics and poetics. The Hague.
Bibliography
Lohmann, P. 1988. Connectedness of texts: a bibliographical survey. In J.S.Petöfi (ed.), Text and discourse constitution. Berlin. 478–501. Part 2 in W.Heydrich et al. (eds), Connexity and coherence. New York.
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