Text and context

Wolfram Bublitz

Christian Hoffmann

pp. 435-455

in: Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald, Hubert Zapf (eds), English and American studies, Stuttgart, Metzler, 2012

Abstract

This chapter will cover the two related areas of pragmatics (as the study of meaning and acting in social contexts) and text analysis (as the study of structures, functions and meanings of texts).