Text und/oder Diskurs in der Perspektive der polnischen Tradition der Texterforschung

Abstract

The author discusses the relationships between text and discourse while negating the trend where the two are positioned at opposite ends. In her opinion, there are no grounds for treating text as an autonomous and static entity and treating discourse as a context-embedded event. The concept of text developed in the Polish tradition of textology emphasises the role of text interpretation by the recipient, which determines the structure and sense of the text. At the same time, text is determined by context. For this reason, the author discards the “text or discourse” relationship in favour of the one described as “text and discourse”. From a linguistic perspective, discourse just opens a certain new perspective in text studies, emphasising the role of institutional, ideological, cultural and interactive factors.