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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 takes into account the form of a text, but also its
setting, i.e. the way in which it is situated in an
interactional, communicative context. Both the author of a
(written or spoken) text as well as its addressee are taken into
consideration in their respective (social and/or institutonal)
roles in the specific communicative context. In general it is an
application of linguistic analysis at the much broader level of
text, rather than just a sentence or wor