Text Linguistics - A Reading List

Abbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Barthes, Roland. S/Z: An Essay. Translated by Richard Miller. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1974.

Barthes, Roland. Image, Music, Text. Translated by Stephen Heath. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

Beaugrande, Robert de. Text, Discourse, and Process: Toward a Multidisciplinary Science of Texts. London: Longman Publishing Group, 1980.

Beaugrande, Robert de and Dressler, Wolfgang. Introduction to Text Linguistics. London: Longman Publishing Group, 1981.

Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

Eco, Umberto. The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.

Fish, Stanley. Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author?" in Twentieth Century Literary Theory. Edited by Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller. Albany: State University Press of New York, 1987.

Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse Revisited. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Halliday, M.A.K. and Hasan, Ruqaiya. Cohesion in English. London: Longman, 1976.

Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Kristeva, Julia. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.

Riffaterre, Michael. Semiotics of Poetry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Silverman, Jonathan and Rader, Dean. The World is a Text: Writing, Reading and Thinking about Visual and Popular Culture. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.

Titscher, Stefan et al. Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis. London: Sage: 2000.

Vanhoozer, Kevin J. Is There a Meaning in This Text? The Bible, The Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.