scholarly journals Tekst, sekvens og heterogenitet. Introduktion til J.-M. Adams teori om teksttyper

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Finn Frandsen
Keyword(s):  
French Text ◽  
Classification Problem ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
De Se ◽  
Text Types ◽  
And Function

The present paper gives a critical introduction to the theory of text types or text sequences elaborated by the French text linguist Jean-Michel Adam. The first part of the paper presents the overall theoretical framework for Adam’s research within stylistics and text linguistics. The second part of the paper gives a more detailed discussion of Adam’s answers to what may be defined as the four most crucial questions within text type research, that is: a) the number of text types which can be identified (the classification problem), b) the relation between text types within individual texts, c) the relation between text types and linguistic features and d) the relation between text types and their communicative function (the interaction between form and function).L’objectif de la linguistique textuelle est simple : poursuivre l’analyse lin-guistique au-delà de la phrase complexe et des seuls couples de phrases et, si difficile que cela paraisse, accepter de se situer aux frontières du linguistique dans le but de rendre compte de l’hétérogénéité de toute composition textuelle.

scholarly journals A Short History and Demonstration of the Dynamic Table of Contexts

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Nelson ◽  
Stéfan Sinclair ◽  
Susan Brown ◽  
Milena Radzikowska ◽  
Mark Bieber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Short History ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents a brief account of the form and function of the “table of contents” to establish a theoretical framework for understanding the form and function of this common element of book architecture with the aim of informing the development of a dynamic table of contexts for books and reading in the digital medium. This paper will thus theorize the relationship between textual studies and interface design in INKE, a project for Implementing New Knowledge Environments.

The Gramulator

2012 ◽  
pp. 312-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip M. McCarthy ◽  
Shinobu Watanabe ◽  
Travis A. Lamkin
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Lexical Diversity ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Text Types

Natural language processing tools, such as Coh-Metrix (see Chapter 11, this volume) and LIWC (see Chapter 12, this volume), have been tremendously successful in offering insight into quantifiable differences between text types. Such quantitative assessments have certainly been highly informative in terms of evaluating theoretical linguistic and psychological categories that distinguish text types (e.g., referential overlap, lexical diversity, positive emotion words, and so forth). Although these identifications are extremely important in revealing ability deficiencies, knowledge gaps, comprehension failures, and underlying psychological phenomena, such assessments can be difficult to interpret because they do not explicitly inform readers and researchers as to which specific linguistic features are driving the text type identification (i.e., the words and word clusters of the text). For example, a tool such as Coh-Metrix informs us that expository texts are more cohesive than narrative texts in terms of sentential referential overlap (McNamara, Louwerse, & Graesser, in press; McCarthy, 2010), but it does not tell us which words (or word clusters) are driving that cohesion. That is, we do not learn which actual words tend to be indicative of the text type differences. These actual words may tend to cluster around certain psychological, cultural, or generic differences, and, as a result, researchers and materials designers who might wish to create or modify text, so as to better meet the needs of readers, are left somewhat in the dark as to which specific language to use. What is needed is a textual analysis tool that offers qualitative output (in addition to quantitative output) that researchers and materials designers might use as a guide to the lexical characteristics of the texts under analysis. The Gramulator is such a tool.

scholarly journals Categories and Genres in CHET and CECHeT

10.29007/kvjx ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Moskowich ◽  
Begoña Crespo
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Writing ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function ◽  
Chemistry Texts

This paper describes one of the concerns of corpus compilers when gathering samples of texts. In particular, it explores how to classify such samples in wider categories in the case of the Corpus of English Chemistry Texts (CECheT), one of the subcorpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. To this end, authors have revised the literature to find (and try to solve) the terminological mess that includes laves such as genre, text-type and textual category. These laves have been widely related either to the form or the function of the text. In this paper the idea of “communicative format” is used to bring together form and function as they are seen as intermingled in texts at all levels.

scholarly journals Buildings, Faces, Songs of Alienation: How Interiority Transforms the Meaning Out There

Interiority ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Pieter Marthinus De Kock
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Spatial Quality ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Mind

This paper presents a theoretical framework that explores visual meaning in the design and use of interior space. It is comprised of three main parts. The first outlines the framework and draws on several key theories. The second introduces three very different constructs as case studies that in#uence (or are a product of) spatial quality, namely: buildings, faces, and songs of alienation. The third part is a discussion about how each of these three constructs are linked to each other as well as to the idea of interiority. While architectural forms are containers of meaning, the way in which interior space is curated is driven by deeper meaning–one that transcends form and function because people ultimately produce the meaning. And because each person is different, the conditions of interiority (in this case, the meaning that resides within each person) drives the meaning of external constructs that act as enclosures of meaning (buildings and their interiors). The findings are that the mind and body can be projected beyond the facade and into the spaces contained in the buildings we occupy. The role of technology is also important because changes in technology help mediate the process of linking the meaning inside with the meaning out there.

Worlds of evidence

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-67
Author(s):  
Patricia Canning ◽  
Yufang Ho ◽  
Sara Bartl
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Forensic Investigation ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
World Theory ◽  
Witness Statements ◽  
And Function

Abstract The Hillsborough football stadium disaster (1989) in Sheffield, UK, led to the deaths of 96 football fans and resulted in the longest jury case in British legal history (2016). This article examines the witness statements of two Sheffield residents who claim to have attended the match. Using a mixed-methods approach that incorporates a cognitive linguistic framework (Text World Theory) with visualisation software (VUE) we consider both form and function of a number of linguistic features, such as meta-narrative, evaluative lexis, syntax, and modality to investigate how institutional voices permeate and potentially distort layperson narratives. Our analysis casts doubt on the veracity of the statements and raises questions about what can be considered evidential in a forensic investigation.

The Gramulator

2014 ◽  
pp. 1673-1694
Author(s):  
Philip M. McCarthy ◽  
Shinobu Watanabe ◽  
Travis A. Lamkin
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Lexical Diversity ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Insight Into

Natural language processing tools, such as Coh-Metrix and LIWC, have been tremendously successful in offering insight into quantifiable differences between text types. Such quantitative assessments have certainly been highly informative in terms of evaluating theoretical linguistic and psychological categories that distinguish text types (e.g., referential overlap, lexical diversity, positive emotion words, and so forth). Although these identifications are extremely important in revealing ability deficiencies, knowledge gaps, comprehension failures, and underlying psychological phenomena, such assessments can be difficult to interpret because they do not explicitly inform readers and researchers as to which specific linguistic features are driving the text type identification (i.e., the words and word clusters of the text). For example, a tool such as Coh-Metrix informs us that expository texts are more cohesive than narrative texts in terms of sentential referential overlap (McNamara, Louwerse, & Graesser, in press; McCarthy, 2010), but it does not tell us which words (or word clusters) are driving that cohesion. That is, we do not learn which actual words tend to be indicative of the text type differences. These actual words may tend to cluster around certain psychological, cultural, or generic differences, and, as a result, researchers and materials designers who might wish to create or modify text, so as to better meet the needs of readers, are left somewhat in the dark as to which specific language to use. What is needed is a textual analysis tool that offers qualitative output (in addition to quantitative output) that researchers and materials designers might use as a guide to the lexical characteristics of the texts under analysis. The Gramulator is such a tool.

Rethinking the Relationships between Sport and Race in American Culture: Golden Ghettos and Contested Terrain

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Full Extent ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Racial Formations ◽  
Racial Dynamics ◽  
Contested Terrain ◽  
And Function ◽  
Extended Review ◽  
The U.S

This article proposes a new way of thinking about the relationships between sport and race in the U.S. It is critical of sport’s racial form and function but does not overlook its unique and potentially progressive characteristics. This theoretical framework is generated through an extended review and critique of longstanding popular beliefs and post-1970s scholarly critiques thereof. It draws most heavily from the latter but also argues that academic critics have been too quick to dismiss the opportunities for racial resistance and change available through sport and, thus, failed to grasp the full extent to which sport is implicated in American racial formations. In contrast, sport is portrayed as a “contested racial terrain.” This formulation, in combination with the “golden ghetto” metaphor, not only conveys the complexity of racial dynamics in sport but also reveals the broad public significance of sport in a racialized culture.

scholarly journals Some Linguistic Features of the Baeu Rodo Scriptures

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-602
Author(s):  
Lianzhi Lu
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Equal Length ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Similar Form ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
First Line ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function

Zhuang, one of the fifty-six ethnic groups in China, enjoys the second largest population among all members in the Chinese family. The Baeu Rodo scriptures, a reflection of the Zhuang culture, are recited by indigenous ritual specialists called boumo for the important life-circle ceremonies of betrothal, marriage, birth, and death, or for cases of dealing with quarrels, summoning lost souls, and driving away devils. Based on the Baeu Rodo texts, it is concluded that the most impressive linguistic features of the Baeu Rodo scriptures are versification, waist-rhyme, and balanced repetition. The scriptures are written predominantly in five-syllable verse and they are in poetic form. Waist-rhyme is a rhyme in which the last syllable in the first line of a stanza rhymes with the middle syllable in the following line, which is extremely different from a rhyme in English. Balanced repetition refers to the structures that are in similar form and function and equal length but usually occur in two or more lines in verse, expressing the same idea or contrasting ones. The discussion of these striking features of the Baeu Rodo scriptures is of great significance, leading to a better understanding of the texts which serve as carriers of the traditional Zhuang culture and promoting the intercultural communication between the Zhuang people and the English people.

scholarly journals Historical genre studies and the history of language: The place and role of text types in German and Russian historical linguistic research

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-589
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Karpov ◽  
◽  
Tatiana V. Toporova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Language History ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Text Genre ◽  
History Of

The article presents a critical analysis of both domestic and foreign works on text linguistics where researchers try to reveal a minimum classification unit. More specifically, the article focuses on the term “Textsorte”. While it is widely employed in German linguistics, its content is not clearly defined in the works of Russian and foreign scholars. Here, it is shown how the term is approached in different fields of research — in information aesthetics, semiotics, text theory, and historical linguistics. The article is aimed at assessing the potential certain text types, recorded in various periods of the life of language, have for an extended description of language history. The authors analyze texts of oral folklore, and namely charms. Therefore, works on the history and typology of folklore genres are taken into account and thoroughly reviewed. These are mainly linguistic genre studies and scrutinizing them provides an opportunity to touch upon problems pertinent to the research of text genres, to consider the discussion around “text genre” and “text type” in foreign and domestic linguistics, to define the place and role of given text types in historical linguistic and cultural studies, and to reveal both trends in researching folklore texts and the relationship of folklore with text linguistics. The authors come to the conclusion that a comprehensive description of a given text type allows one to formulate general principles of diachronically oriented research and make a significant contribution to the development of historical linguistics.

Subjectivity as a text-type Marker in Historical Stylistics

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irma Taavitsainen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Detailed Assessment

This paper discusses subjectivity as a text-type marker in a historical perspective. It claims that linguistic features reflecting personal involvement in a text act as text-type markers in some genre and period styles. Cultural conventions are important formative factors in the use of such features, and generic conventions may override individual styles in some early periods. The quality of ‘personal affect’ seems to vary greatly in different text types. It is an essential component of participant relations, and because of the variation in volume and form, it can provide a tool for a more detailed assessment of period and genre styles.

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