WEEK 10: properties of textuality Flashcards
What is textuality?
= properties defining texts as distinct from other types of linguistic units (words/clause) - primarily, coherence and cohesion
What are the 7 standards of textuality?
- Cohesion
- Coherence
- Intentionality
- Acceptability
- Informativity
- Situationality
- Intertextuality
What is the difference btw cohesion and coherence?
Cohesion = network of formal and semantic elements holding the text together (objective, syntactic connectedness)
Coherence = network of contextual clues, knowledge, out-of-text reality, which makes the language interpretable, text relevance (subjective, semantic connectedness)
How do we divide cohesion?
1) Grammatical
- reference (personal pronouns, endophoric X exophoric),
- substitution (verbal, nominal, clausal - she didnt want one),
- ellipsis (nominal, verbal, clausal level)
- conjunction (indicate relationship)
2) Lexical
- reiteration (repetition)
- synonymy, antonymy, general words
- semantic fields (pan-oven-mixing bowl)
What is intertextuality? What are other types?
= text relates to other texts, quotation, paraphrase
other:
- paratextuality - relation btw text and paratext - titles, headings, illustrations, footnotes
- architextuality - saying that a text is part of genre/genres
- metatextuality - explicit/implicit criticism of another text
- hypertextuality - relation btw a text and preceding text/ genre on which it is based but which it transforms, modifies (sequel, translation, parody)
What is intentionality?
Attitude and purpose of the addresser, purpose of text
What is acceptability?
Preparedness of adressee to receive the text so that he can consider it a text
What is informativity?
The informative value of a text - known/unknown, expected/unexpected
What is situationality?
Situation/context in which the text becomes interpretable (related to coherence)
