Sentence connexion and global text structures: a case study of a political text, English leader article

Authors

  • Dieter Stein
  • Adriana Mattei

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.1993.6.16

Keywords:

Lengua inglesa, Semántica, Análisis del discurso, Estructura textual, Funcionalismo, Conexión

Abstract

The paper first gives a brief overview of the history and theoretical status of discourse analysis, or "text linguistics." The main body of the paper consists of a detailed analysis of sentence connexion, i.e. the logical relationship between sentences and larger chunks of text, performed on a newspaper leader article. The results of this local analysis are then related to the global organisation of text structure with components such as macro- and super-structure by way of interpreting them in terms of the psycholinguistics of global text comprehension. The analysis is supplemented by considerations of functional sentence perspective, topic management, and a characterisation of the macro-speech act as primarily subjective with the appropriate surface manifestations.

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Published

30-11-1993

How to Cite

Stein, Dieter, and Adriana Mattei. 1993. “Sentence Connexion and Global Text Structures: A Case Study of a Political Text, English Leader Article”. Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina De Estudios Ingleses, no. 6 (November):171-87. https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.1993.6.16.

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