The notion of linguistic choices in written text production
Abstract
This thesis aims at making a contribution to the fields of Discourse Analysis, Text Linguistics, and Corpus Linguistics, from which it draws. More precisely, it explores linguistic choices activated by native speakers of Modern Greek in written text production, and suggests a clarification of three terms: a) available possibilities of expression, offered by the linguistic SYSTEM of Modern Greek itself due to the inherent anisomorphism between content and form, are characterised by VARIETY and are called OPTIONS; their VALEUR (in Saussurian terms) can be detected at the level of PARADIGMATIC and SYNTAGMATIC relations, b) potential wordings for linguistic performance of this SYSTEM are characterised by VARIABILITY and are called SELECTIONS; they can be mainly detected at the PARADIGMATIC axis and lead a native speaker to the procedure of preferring only one SELECTION among others, and c) the results of this selection procedure in written text are called CHOICES, which can be detected at ...
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