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text theory (also textology)
A subdiscipline of linguistic theory. Text theory supplies an explanation for the constitutive properties of texts in text linguistics. Common to all newer suggestions for a schema is the assumption that texts can only be explained and adequately described if all factors of the communication process are included.
References
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Petöfi, J.S.
1978. A formal semiotic text theory as an integrated theory of natural languages. In W. Dressler (ed.). Current trends in text linguistics. Berlin. 35–46.
Van Dijk, T.A. 1985. Handbook of discourse analysis, 4 vols. London.
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