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AUF EINER BRÜCKE ZWISCHEN TITEL UND TEXT – TITELFUNKTIONEN
Between Title and Text – Title Functions

Author(s): Magdalena Makowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: title; title function; text; text function; criteria of textuality

Summary/Abstract: The present article constitutes an attempt to answer the question what functions are performed by a literary title in reference to the text preceding it and in the relation: text’s author and its recipient. At the beginning presented are general functions of a text, later on followed by an analysis of the functions of a literary title on the basis of a corpus made up of book titles within the range of women’s literature. Literary title and its functions are analyzed against the background of text linguistics and psycholinguistics.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: XII
  • Page Range: 105-114
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: German