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We presented in 7.1 a model of language in which sound substance was related via lexical and syntactic form to situation. The utterances which speakers produce in situation are bound together in a manner which is by no means random. Thus in order to account for the ties existing between sentences in the grammar of a language, linguists have advanced the notion of a unit text. This chapter attempts to define the nature and meaning of the devices which enable speakers to create texts.
Language is a joint game by speaker and listener against the forces of confusion.
Norbert Wiener (1954) The Human Use of Human Beings p. 82
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Hartley, A.F. (1982). Text Structure. In: Linguistics for Language Learners. Contemporary Language Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16859-0_11
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