Text grammar

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The text grammar is a research field of text linguistics that tries the grammar to expand, which traditionally was a set of rules for analysis and / or production of rates to the plane of the texts.

It is based on the observation that a number of relationships exist between the sentences of a text, which ensure a grammatical and semantic connection between them and which do not have arbitrarily mixed sentences from different sources.

The concept of text grammar was associated with the hope of being able to define grammatical relationships beyond the level of sentences. In this sense, Harro Gross defines text grammar as "text syntax and text semantics".

Aspects and criticism of text grammar

When looking at the cross-sentence relationships between sentences, the phenomena of text references come into view: anaphors , cataphors , sentence-connecting conjunctions and isotopes . This approach is regarded as inadequate: “The aim of the research on text grammar essentially consisted in the attempt to determine syntactic and semantic rules for the generation and interpretation as well as criteria for the grammaticality and well-formedness of texts. This goal of text grammar was missed in all decisive points. ”The reason for this assessment is that a text cannot be reduced to grammatical and semantic regularities, but other knowledge systems such as text pragmatics and text topic must also be taken into account. However, the considerations on text grammar remain important as an integral part of a broader text linguistics / text theory .

Weinrich's text grammar

Weinrich (1993) presented his own attempt with his text grammar. This is not a matter of text grammar in the sense of a linguistic discipline, but of the attempt to write a grammar from a perspective that is different in comparison to other approaches - from the perspective of the text or its cohesive means that interweave the text.

Weinrich deals in large parts with the classic topics of grammar: morphology and syntax, but also assumes dialogical texts, which is particularly clearly expressed in Chapter 8: Syntax of Dialogue . Accordingly, he also describes his work as dialogue grammar .

literature

  • Christina Gansel, Frank Jürgens: Text Linguistics and Text Grammar. An introduction. UTB / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Stuttgart / Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8252-3265-8 .
  • Bernhard Sowinski: Text Linguistics. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1983. ISBN 3-17-005835-5 . Especially p. 35 ff .: Text grammatical work and 106 ff .: Text grammar .
  • Harald Weinrich : Text grammar of the German language. With the collaboration of Maria Thurmair, Eva Breindl and Eva-Maria Willkop. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1993. ISBN 3-411-05261-9 .
  • Arne Ziegler: Syntactic References in Text Alliances of the 13th and 14th Centuries. A contribution to a historical text grammar. In: Mechthild Habermann (Ed.): Text type typologies and text alliances of the 13th and 14th centuries. Berlin 2011 (= Berlin linguistic studies. Volume 22), pp. 285–301.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harro Gross: Introduction to German Linguistics. 3rd, revised and expanded edition, revised by Klaus Fischer. Iudicium, Munich 1998, p. 132. ISBN 3-89129-240-6
  2. ^ Helmut Glück (ed.), With the assistance of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprach. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 (keyword: “text grammar”).
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Fleischer, Gerhard Helbig, Gotthard Lerchner (Ed.): Small Encyclopedia German Language . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2001, p. 306. ISBN 3-631-35310-3 .

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