Text Linguistics

The course introduces students to the basic notions in text linguistics like textuality and texture, differences between text and discourse, text linguistics approaches, etc. It also introduces students to the seven standards of textuality and concentrates on cohesion and coherence of texts. Then, the course provides students with the necessary systems to analyze different texts like Halliday & Hasan's system of cohesive ties. Finally, it highlights the different types of texts and their individual distinctive characteristics.