Some Aspects of Text Grammars

Teun A. van Dijk

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9783110804263
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

• Preface
• PART I: GENERAL PROPERTIES OF TEXT GRAMMARS
• 1. Towards a Theory of Text Grammars
• 1. Some arguments for text grammars
• 1.1. Introduction
• 1.2. Empirical arguments
• 1.3. Grammatical arguments
• 2. S-grammars and T-grammars
• 2.1. S-grammars and linear recursion
• 2.2. Sentences and sequences
• 2.3. The form of T-grammars
• 2.4. “On the natural domain of grammar”
• 3. Textual linguistics: some classical approaches
• 3.1. Introduction
• 3.2. Ancient rhetorics
• 3.3. The structural analysis of discourse
• 3.4. Generative-transformational approaches to text structure
• 2. Textual Surface Structures: Relations Between Sentences
• 1. Introduction: methodological procedures
• 2. Terminological issues
• 3. Relations between sentences
• 4. Surface relations between sentences
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. Noun phrases and (in)definite descriptions
• 4.3. Pronominalization
• 4.4. Concluding remarks
• 4.5. Verb phrases/predicates, tense/time
• 4.6. Place adverbials and the topological logic of texts
• 4.7. Final remarks
• 5. Semantic relations between sentences
• 5.1. Introduction
• 5.2. Properties of relations
• 5.3. Relations between lexical elements
• 5.4. Relations between sentences: presupposition and entailment
• 5.5. Other semantic relations between sentences
• 5.6. Topic and comment
• 6. A specimen of description
• 7. Conclusions and speculations on the form of the surface grammar
• 3. Textual Deep Structure: Macro-Structures
• 1. Introduction: why textual deep structure?
• 2. Some informal models for macro-structures
• 3. Towards a model for macro-derivation
• 4. A specimen of description
• 5. Conclusion and final remarks
• PART II: ASPECTS OF LITERARY TEXT GRAMMARS
• 4. The Foundations of Poetics. Methodological Preliminaries
• 1. Introduction. About a discipline
• 2. Terminology, scope and tasks
• 3. Poetics and the philosophy of science
• 3.1. Poetics as an empirical science
• 3.2. Poetics as a theoretical science
• 3.3. Poetics as a social science
• 4. Foundations of a theory of literary text structures
• 5. Linguistics and Poetics
• 1. Grammars of natural language and their empirical scope
• 2. Language, literature and grammar
• 3. Linguistics and poetics
• 6. Surface Operations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Phonological operations
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Non-metrical structures
• 2.3 Metrical structures
• 2.4 Morphematic structures
• 3. Syntactic operations
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Some syntactic rules for modern poetry
• 4. Concluding remarks
• 7. Semantic Operations. Processes of Metaphorization
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The structure of semantic representations
• 3. Metaphorical structures in literature: preliminary observations
• 4. Transformational processes of metaphorization
• 5. Some further examples
• 6. Some theoretical conclusions
• 8. Semantic Macro-Operations. Narrative Structures
• 1. Macro-structures and literary texts
• 2. The linear coherence of literary texts
• 3. Structural analysis of narrative
• 4. Aspects of a generative grammar of narrative
• 5. Narrative transformations and literary operations
• 5.4. Deletion transformations
• 5.5. Addition transformations
• 5.6. Permutative transformations
• 5.7. Some final remarks
• PART III: TOWARDS A THEORY OF TEXTUAL COMMUNICATION
• 9. Context. Performance. Pragmatics
• 1. Linguistic theory and the status of pragmatics
• 2. Psychological implications of text grammars
• 3. Sociological implications of text grammars
• 4. Aspects of a theory of literary performance
• 5. Some final remarks
• References
• Index of names
• Subject index