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Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions
Edited by Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 345] 2024
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Structures in discourse

Micro and macro perspectives

| Åbo Akademi University
Texts are expected to have structure and the study of that structure is a central concern in text and discourse linguistics. Texts are semantic units and their structure is therefore a matter of organization of the content material included in them. At the same time, text structure is also a matter of form, since texts manifest linguistic signals of various kinds whose purpose is to facilitate the text receiver’s task of interpretation, i.e. the task of building a text world around a given text. And even shape can be used to disclose the structure of a given text. (Virtanen 1997a)
Keywords: discourse structure, text and discourse linguistics, context, Tuija Virtanen
Article outline
  • 1.Expanding scope: From cohesion to communication and cognition
  • 2.Expanding perspectives on structures in discourse
  • 3.The present volume: From micro to macro perspectives
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 7 August 2024
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