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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bretelle-Establet, Florence
• Schmitt, Stéphane

Titel

Textual Places: “Parts of Text” and “Stretches of Text”

Ist Teil von

• Pieces and Parts in Scientific Texts, 2018, Vol.1, p.19-46

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this contribution, the property a text to be divided into “parts” is considered as one of the basic dimensions of written Textualtextuality. As such, the notion of “parts of text” is studied in the frame of a reflection about the discursive construction of “textual Textualtextual places”. The notion of “parts of text” is first clarified through its decomposition in two different categories, linked to a practice of text division: “dispositional parts of Partsdispositional parts of text” (e.g. the chapter) that depend on the internal structure of the discourse and “material parts of Partsmaterial parts of text” (e.g. the page) which are defined according to the material properties of the object on which the text is written (e.g. the book). The coexistence of these two categories is taken into account to understand the general System to which they belong. Secondly, “parts of text” are distinguished from “Partsstretches of textStretches of text”, that is to say from another type of textual place defined by the use of linguistic elements such as ici (here) or ci-dessous (below). These elements “map” the discourse, giving an image of what one can call its dynamic of Writingdynamic of writing. The whole study is based on the observation of linguistic elements belonging to contemporary printed texts written in the Western world and to various discursive genres.