Review article

Linguistic Approaches to Text

Lada Badurina orcid.org/0000-0003-4588-9870 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka

Abstract

The article focuses on the place of text in traditional and some contemporary linguistic theories. Special emphasis is placed on the importance, but also the limitations, of the Prague theory of functional sentence perspective (which strongly influenced Croatian linguistics, particularly the so-called actual syntax introduced by Josip Silić). Actual syntax and especially the idea of the informational structure of utterance has contributed significantly to the improvement of syntactic descriptions, particularly when it comes to the so-called non-constituent parts of syntactic structure, but also when it comes to the order of syntactic elements (as can be noticed in Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika (Grammar of the Croatian Language) written by two members of the Zagreb Department of the Standard Croatian Language, Josip Silić and Ivo Pranjković). In the following part of the article the focus will be placed on other (interdisciplinary) theories, primarily those that are not only interested in text as a linguistic structure, but also in the communicative aspects of language (i.e. linguistic activity). Within this context the author discusses the issue of devising a (future) course of studies in Croatian linguistics.

Keywords

text; functional syntactic perspective (actual syntax); systemic functional linguistics; text linguistics

Hrčak ID:

174510

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/174510

Publication date:

29.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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