Text Linguistics

Difference between sentence and utterance

A sentence usually contains several words that function as subject and predicate. An utterance is a spoken word or sentence

Text and a simple sequence of sentences

The sentences that built a text are all logically connected, or logically separated by special words and paragraphs and etc. A simple sequence of sentences can be not connected anyhow logically.

Units of text

What kind of unity is a text

Compare different definitions of text. What are the common features of all definitions

The common feature is that text is a tool of communication and is created by the use of language.

What is the difference between traditional and modern notions of text

What is a text in narrow and broad understanding

A text in a broad meaning is (equal to) speech, the product of speaking (for sound language). A text in a narrow meaning is a unit of speech, which is characterized by integrity and inner coherence, and as such may be separated from the preceding and subsequent texts (if a text is not isolated).

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Steve Jobs at the WWDC 07

English: Apple director Steve Jobs shows iPhone

A text in a narrow meaning is the largest constructive unit, although, as it was said before, a text may be realized even through one utterance and an utterance - through one word.

What is the difference between text and discource

Термин «дискурс», как он понимается в современной лингвистике, близок по смыслу к понятию «текст», однако подчеркивает динамический, разворачивающийся во времени характер языкового общения; в противоположность этому, текст мыслится преимущественно как статический объект, результат языковой деятельности. Иногда «дискурс» понимается как включающий одновременно два компонента: и динамический процесс языковой деятельности, вписанной в ее социальный контекст, и ее результат (т.е. текст); именно такое понимание является предпочтительным. Иногда встречающиеся попытки заменить понятие дискурса словосочетанием «связный текст» не слишком удачны, так как любой нормальный текст...