Didactics of Translation: Text in Context

The legitimacy of the textlinguistic approach

There are two main arguments for the legitimacy of the textlinguistic approach:

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   Textlinguistics is based on the fact that certain grammatical phenomena, such as aspects of reference, pronominalization…, can only be accounted for within texts and by text grammar.
   
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   It is also based on the psychological reality of discourse. More specifically, the language user is said to be able to detect hybridization, i.e. the co-existence of different text types within a sample text, by referring to his internalized knowledge of what constitutes a particular text type. He is also capable of anticipating the likely development of a given text on the basis of this internalized knowledge (Hatim and Mason 1990: 159).
   

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