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Text linguistics, a branch of linguistics emerging in the 1970s, studies texts as communication systems. Initially focused on text grammars, its scope broadened to encompass the entire text, moving beyond sentence-level analysis. Key concerns include defining textuality and classifying text genres. Influenced by pragmatics and psychology, it now examines text production, reception, and social function. Therefore, text linguistics studies text as both product (cohesion, coherence, etc.) and process (production, interpretation). Its focus on the text itself leads to significant overlap with discourse analysis, stylistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and narratology.

What is TEXT LINGUISTICS?  TEXT LINGUISTICS is a branch of LINGUISTICS that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars. The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in which text is viewed in much broader terms that go beyond a mere extension of traditional grammar towards an entire text.  TEXT LINGUISTICS as a sub-branch of LINGUISTICS did not really develop until the early 1970s, until linguistics itself began to be less concerned with the SENTENCE as the prime unit of analysis; or at least until it began to be felt that some special discipline should take care of potential units larger than a sentence, or of intra-sentence relations. One major concern is the definition of TEXTUALITY; and also the classification or typology of texts according to their GENRE characteristics. Under the influence of PRAGMATICS and PSYCHOLOGY, more attention is being focused on the production or processing and reception of texts, and on their social function in society.  Accordingly, TEXT LINGUISTICS can be defined as the study of text as a product (text grammar) or as a process (theory of text). The text-as-a-product approach is focused on the text cohesion, coherence, topical organization, illocutionary structure and communicative functions; the text-as-a-process approach studies the text production, reception and interpretation.  In focusing on the TEXT itself, as an object of study, it overlaps in many ways with aspects of DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, STYLISTICS, PRAGMATICS, SOCIOLINGUISTICS and NARRATOLOGY.