Textuality

Under textuality is understood in text linguistics, the property of being a text. Various criteria of textuality thus distinguish texts of so-called "non- text ". A uniform, in linguistics generally accepted definition of " text" does not yet exist.

Even in everyday language, only those utterances are called text that meet certain criteria. This type of finding of textuality is based roughly on the following definition: A text is a completed, written or potentially writable utterance, which consists of several ( complete or incomplete ) sentences that communicate with each other on content and formal context.

Textuality of language and communication- oriented point of view of systematic

The aim of the language- systematic consideration of texts is the development of a text grammar that can understand a text as a complex linguistic sign and its cross-block linguistic structure studied.

Kommunikationsorienterte approaches also take greater account of such effects, which arise from the communication situation in which a text is produced or used (so-called text- external factors). Result, they are often more useful than saying systematic considerations to explain properties of the text that can not be attributed to properties of individual parts of the text. Based on the speech act theory, it is assumed here that a text is a linguistic act that should fulfill a specific purpose.

Klaus Brinker explained that in the history of linguistics, the notion of text, has oriented towards a communication-oriented text linguistics in the context of pragmatic additions to a language systematically aligned text linguistics, which refers to a structuralist linguistics and the generative transformational grammar.

Textualitätskriterien after de Beaugrande and Dressler

Basis of many text definitions and discussion on the notion of text are the 1981 drawn up by Robert -Alain de Beaugrande and Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler Textualitätskriterien. You define a text as " communicative Okkurrenz (...), which meets seven criteria of textuality. If any of these criteria is considered to be not met, the text shall be deemed not communicative. Therefore, non- communicative texts ( S. De Beaugrande / Dressler, 1981, 3 ) are treated as non- texts. "

The seven principles of textkonstitutiven texts are by de Beaugrande / Dressler:

Heinz father criticized the evaluation conducted by de Beaugrande / Dressler definition by pointing about the fact that this implies that it is possible on the basis of seven textkonstitutiven features clear distinction between text and non-text objects, which he considers extremely problematic. Thus, the lack of cohesion is possible without any problem in some texts, and the other criteria are - with the exception of coherence - often unnecessary.

De Beaugrande / Dressler also formulate three " regulative principles " of texts: