Das vorliegende Studienbuch vereint die Beiträge verschiedener renommierter Textlinguistinnen und Textlinguisten des deutschsprachigen Raumes und gibt so einen Überblick über Forschungsfragen und Methoden der Textlinguistik von ihren Anfängen bis heute. Dabei werden klassische A…
This book argues that languages are composed of sets of 'signs', rather than 'strings'. This notion, first posited by de Saussure in the early 20th century, has for decades been neglected by linguists, particularly following Chomsky's heavy critiques of the 1950s. Yet since the …
The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. It includes papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic subdisciplines such as ph…
This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its b…
