Introduction to
Text Linguistics

The standard introduction to text linguistics, number 26 in the Longman Linguistics Library. English translation copyright 1981 Robert de Beaugrande; German edition copyright 1972 Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen; first published 1981, SECOND IMPRESSION 1983 — this copy. ISBN 0 582 55485 3 paper. Its first chapter sets out the SEVEN STANDARDS OF TEXTUALITY — cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, intertextuality — which is the framework most discourse analysis since has either used or argued with.