Winter 2006/07 PS Textlinguistics Mi C 301

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1 Winter 2006/07 PS Textlinguistics Mi C Introductory remarks Students who want to write a paper in this class should pick one of the presentation topics (see 3. below). If necessary, more topics will be provided. You can pick a topic by sending me an . Otherwise, topics will be distributed in the first session. Everybody writing a paper will be required to give a brief presentation of their topic in class. Presentations will be strictly limited to minutes; typically they will discuss some preliminary empirical findings and as such will be work in progress to be discussed in class. When preparing you presentation, you should come to me during my office hours (Mondays, 14-15) twice: firstly, after you've worked your way into your topic and looked at relevant literature; secondly in the week of your presentation, to give me a final account of what you have in mind. Papers will have to be handed in by March 5 th (i.e. three weeks after the end of the semester). Please consult the information sheet about writing a seminar paper on the department's homepage. Students who want to do the oral exam for the "Spezialisierungsmodul" will be required to present syntactic analyses in class. The oral will be based on the entire seminar, although examinees can choose a "special topic" which will be given special attention in the exam. All candidates are therefore urgently advised to read up on the topics presented in class continuously (see below). Registration slips for the orals will be handed out in class. Section 4 below gives a number of texts which must be read in preparation for each session. A good and brief treatment of many aspects covered in this seminar can be found in Renkema (1993). Since there is only one copy in the departmental library, I recommend that all participants buy that book. 2. Preliminary Semester Plan (actual date depends on progress made in class): Datum General theme Introduction; organizational matters What is text? Allerheiligen Text grammar I: reference Text grammar II: substitution & ellipsis Text grammar III: conjunction tense and temporal adjuncts Text semantics I: lexical cohesion in Halliday & Hasan Text semantics II: theme and rheme

2 Text semantics III: thematic expansion Text and cognition Text pragmatics I: basics Text pragmatics II: application to text Text typology Spoken text General discussion 3. Topics for Papers: Text Grammar I: reference 1. The notion of reference in semantics (Lyons) und textlinguistics (Halliday & Hasan). 2. Cataphoric reference: an empirical study. 3. Anaphora resolution: an empirical study. Text Grammar II: substitution & ellipsis 4. Cases of substitution: an empirical study. Text Grammar III: conjunction & tense 5. The use of sentence initial and: an empirical study. 6. Tense and aspect as a factor of text structure: an empirical study. Text Semantics I 7. Concepts of collocation. 8. OCD-collocations and their contribution to textuality: an empirical study. 9. Patterns of reiteration: an empirical study. 10. Isotopy: an empirical study. Text Semantics II 11. Theme-rheme-analysis: an empirical study. 12. The application of discourse strategies in CGEL to text: an empirical study.

3 Text Semantics III 13. Thematic expansion: an empirical study. Text and Cognition 14. The organisation of knowledge: frames, scripts, scenarios. Text Pragmatics 15. Presuppositions and interferences: an empirical study. 16. The illocutionary analysis of advertisements: an empirical study. 17. The illocutionary analysis of a political speech: an empirical study. Text typology 18. Weather reports in English newspapers: an empirical study. 19. Textuality and Hypertext Spoken Text 20. Turn-taking in spontaneous conversation: an empirical study. 21. Turn-taking in dramatic conversation: an empirical study. 4. Reading List What is text? de Beaugrande & Dressler (1981, 1-15) Renkema (1993, 34-37) Reference, substitution & ellipsis, conjunction Tense and temporal adjuncts Lexical cohesion Halliday (1994, ) Renkema (1993, 37-39) Smith (1980) de Beaugrande & Dressler (1981, 74-76) Halliday (1994, ) Renkema (1993, 39f.) Isotopy Kallmeyer et al. ( , ) ml Heinemann & Heinemann (2002, 72-74) Theme-Rheme Renkema (1993, 62-66) Heinemann & Heinemann (2002, 70-72) Thematic expansion Renkema (1993, 53-62) Brinker ( , 54-80)

4 Text and Cognition Pragmatics: basics Pragmatics: inferences Pragmatics: application to text Beaugrande & Dressler 1981: Renkema (1993, 7-31) Renkema 1993: Brinker ( , ) Text Typology Brinker ( , ) Renkema (1993, 86-93) Spoken Text Renkema (1993, ) Selected Literature: Brinker, Klaus (1996), 'Zur Analyse der narrativen Themenentfaltung am Beispiel einer AlltagserzÄhlung.' In: Hennig, JÖrg & J. Meier (Hrsg.), VarietÄten der deutschen Sprache. Festschrift für Dieter MÖhn. Frankfurt a. M.: Lang, Brinker, Klaus ( ), Linguistische Textanalyse. Berlin: Schmidt. Brinker, Klaus, Gerd Antos, Wolfgang Heinemann & Sven F. Sager (Hg.) (2000), Text- und GesprÄchslinguistik - Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung (HandbÜcher zur Sprachund Kommunikationswissenschaft Bd. 16). Berlin & New York: De Gruyter. (= HSK) Brown G. & G. Yule (1983), Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: CUP. BÜhler K. (1934/1965), Sprachtheorie. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag. Coulthard, Malcolm ( ), An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Harlow: Longman. DaneŁ, FrantiŁek (1970), 'Zur linguistischen Analyse der Textstruktur'. Folia Linguistica IV, (auch abgedruckt in U. Dressler, Textlinguistik. Darmstadt 1978) De Beaugrande, R. & W. U. Dressler (1981), EinfÜhrung in die Textlinguistik. TÜbingen: Niemeyer. GÜhlich E. & W. Raible (1977), Linguistische Textmodelle. MÜnchen: Fink. HajicovÁ E. (1994), 'Topic/Focus and Related Research'. In: P. A. Luelsdorff, The Prague School of Structural and Funtional Linguistics. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, Halliday M. A. K. ( ), An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Edward Arnold. Halliday, M. A. K. & R. Hasan (1976), Cohesion in English. London: Longman. (= HH) Hasan, R. (1984), Coherence and Cohesive Harmony. In: Flood J. (ed.), Understanding Reading Comprehension: Cognition, Language and the Structure of Prose. Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, Heinemann Margot & Werner Heinemann (2002), Grundlagen der Textlinguistik. TÜbingen: Niemeyer. Heinemann, Werner & Dieter Viehweger (1991), Textlinguistik - Eine EinfÜhrung. TÜbingen: Niemeyer. Herbst, Thomas (1996a), What are Collocations - Sandy Beaches or False Teeth. English Studies 77/4, Isenberg, H. (1974), '¼berlegungen zur Texttheorie'. In: Kallmeyer, W., W. Klein, R. Meyer- Hermann, K. Netzer & H. J. Siebert (eds.), LektÜrekolleg zur Textlinguistik Bd. 2. Frankfurt: AthenÄum,

5 Jakobson, Roman (1960), 'Linguistics and poetics'. In: Thomas Albert Sebeok (ed.), Style in Language. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT-Press, Kallmeyer, Werner, Wolfgang Klein, Reinhard Meyer-Herrmann, Klaus Netzer & Hans-JÜrgen Siebert ( ), LektÜrekolleg zur Textlinguistik 1. KÖnigstein/ Ts.: AthenÄum. Lutz, Luise (1981), Zum Thema "Thema". Hamburg: Hamburger Buchagentur. Motsch, W. & Dieter Viehweger (1991), 'Illokutionsstruktur als Komponente einer modularen Textanalyse'. In: Brinker, Klaus (Hg.), Aspekte der Textlinguistik. Hildesheim & New York: Olms, Renkema, Jan (1993), Discourse Studies. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. Shiro, Martha (1994), Inferences in discourse comprehension. In: Coulthard, M. (ed.), Advances in Written Text Analysis. London & New York: Routledge, Smith Carlota S. (1980), 'Temporal structures in discourse'. In: Rohrer, Christian (Hg.), Time, Tense and Quantifiers: Proceedings of the Stuttgart Conference on the Logic of Tense and Quantification. TÜbingen: Niemeyer, Vater, Heinz ( ), EinfÜhrung in die Textlinguistik. MÜnchen: Fink.