Open AccessTeksttype og polyfoni
Author(s) -
Kjersti Fløttum
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
hermes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.759
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1903-1785
pISSN - 0904-1699
DOI - 10.7146/hjlcb.v11i20.25450
Subject(s) - typology , polyphony , linguistics , skepticism , foundation (evidence) , subject (documents) , basis (linear algebra) , psychology , sociology , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , history , pedagogy , geometry , archaeology , library science , anthropology
There is a general scepticism as to definitions of text types based on determined lin-guistic criteria. The subject of this article is to show how it is possible to strengthen the linguistic basis of text typologies. After a description of the evolution of text typology from Werlich (1976) via van Dijk (1980) to Adam (1992), linguistic polyphony is presented as a contribution to a linguistic foundation of Adamís prototypical typology. It is shown how the polyphonic structure can describe, make explicit and explain ty-pological text features.