EAN: 9783631618028

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH TEXTS - TANJA RÜTTEN GEBU...

The things we do with words are reflected in texts and we do things with texts just as we do
things with words. This book sets out to explore how texts function in a given discourse
community  and how the functions that texts may have in that particular community can be
identified and assessed from a diachronic perspective. It systematically distinguishes general
discourse functions (e.g. religious instruction) from more specific text functions (e.g.
exegesis  exhortation)  and outlines co-occurrence patterns of text functions for selected
genres. A contrastive view of the evolution of these profiles ties the changes in individual
genres to the complex and dynamic network of which they are a part. Combining corpus
methodology with detailed qualitative discussion  this book identifies text functions as the
performative centre of texts and shows how language variation and change strongly depend on the
dynamics of the complete network of genres in the domain.

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