Text Linguistics in the Context of the Communication Sciences

• Main Authors: Silviu Serban, Cristian Scarlat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Danubius University 2011-05-01
• Series: EIRP Proceedings
• Subjects: models of communication; theories of communication; text; textuality; semi otics
• Online Access: http://www.proceedings.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/eirp/article/view/795/722

This paper tries to analyse the conditions of emerging of text linguistics, taking into consideration the rootsof the preoccupations in its domain, originated in the framework of the communication studies. Thus, the change ofthe perspective on communication, from the mechanistic transmission to interactivity and the exchange of themeanings, led to the pragmatic orientation of the linguistic researches, not just to the message itself, but also to theelements of the communicative act and to the context where the exchange of the meanings takes place. As a result,text linguistics defines the text as communicational occurrence, involving both the members of the communicationand the conditions of the production and the reception of the message, unlike conventional linguistics which studiesthe text in abstracto, just the message itself, ignoring the world that the text refers to, or the users of the message, thetransmitter and the receiver.