Burghard B. Rieger:
Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and a New Empirical Approach to
Frame Reconstruction
In: Petöfi, J.S. (ed.): Text versus Sentence. Basic Questions of
Textlinguistics [Papers in Textlinguistics 20-2], Hamburg (H. Buske)
1979, pp. 555-571
Abstract
The title of this paper draws upon two related articles
which - particularly outside the continental tradition
of linguistics - may be considered to have opened the discussion and
widened its scope by focussing on possible issues
of changing aims of the discipline: when on the occasion of
reviewing van Dijk's Aspects of Text-Grammars, Dascal and Margalit
(1974) first had spotted another revolution in linguistics, and
when next Petöfi and Rieser (1977), who had
critically commented on that review and its generalizations,
had nevertheless granted them some counter-revolutionary
status, the nomenclature seemed to be coined for easy and ready
identification of controversial positions within the text grammar vs.
sentence grammar discussion in linguistics. It
may, however, be doubted whether this alternative and its
handy but high-pitched label can be maintained considering the
problems which linguistic theory both of analysis and description of
natural language is going to face when trying to cope
with verbal communication and the semiotic processes involved. These
problems will be adressed and discussed in some depth here.
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