Within linguistics, discourse linguistics has now become established as a sub-discipline dealing with supratextual meaning relations and historically and culturally based knowledge. A large number of individual studies have been presented and the theoretical discussion is well advanced. What is still lacking, however, is a soundly-based methodology, which is where this volume comes in. The contributors present and discuss various investigative procedures.
Author Biography
Ingo H. Warnke, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen; Jurgen Spitzmuller, Universitat Zurich, Schweiz."
