Zur Rolle und Funktion der Texte in der Kommunikation
On the Role and Function of Texts in Communication

Summary/Abstract: The review article discusses the book by Monika Schwarz-Friesel and Manfred Consten, „Textlinguistik. Eine Einführung“ (2nd, fully revised and expanded edition). In the introductory section, the role of text in human communication, as well as text linguistics as a research discipline and its tasks, are briefly addressed. In the subsequent, much more extensive chapters, various questions of text linguistic research are discussed in a very detailed and comprehensive manner. The authors primarily deal with the definition of text and the classification of texts, pointing out different challenges associated with these aspects of text linguistics. Furthermore, they devote their attention to such fundamental concepts of text linguistics as cohesion, coherence, anaphora and cataphora, as well as the thematic-rhematic structure. The issue of reference in texts is also considered, viewed from the perspective of the text-world model. In the context of these reflections, aspects connected with the phenomenon of reference or referentiality are also addressed, which include, above all, conceptualisation, evaluation and perspectivisation. However, the book does not only take theoretical aspects into account. In the final chapter, the authors show in which areas and in what ways insights of text linguistics can be applied in practice.

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