Textlinguistik und Textsortenlinguistik

This introduction provides comprehensive insights into the development of text and text type linguistics and imparts practical knowledge on the analysis and classification of texts. With well-founded theoretical approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives from discourse and systems theory as well as cultural studies, the significance of texts and text types in their social, cultural, and historical contexts is examined. Using a variety of recent examples such as film reviews, diaries, and memes, the function, structure, and other dimensions of texts and text types are examined, and readers are guided in understanding textual phenomena in their diverse forms.