Sprachdidaktik und Textlinguistik. Praxiserfahrung mit Texten.

The book is an introduction to the concept of “text” and its expressive techniques, at both a syntagmatic and paradigmatic level. It aims to offer readers a basis for personal analysis of all types of written texts. It also tries to enable them to work on and edit a contemporary text through the use of the expressive techniques of German as foreign language. The book is ideally suitable for teaching purposes, at both high-school and, especially, university level. By means of case examples, tasks and solutions students can also familiarize with the suggested methodology through self-study. The supplied material consists of numerous articles from German magazines and newspapers, which provide a large number of texts and text-typologies. This method helps students update their language competences, putting them consciously into practice. In this context, also theoretical reflection on language, that enables the appropriate use of a foreign language, has an important role. As a conceptual approach to language-teaching, the book offers a view on the communication-oriented method that is strictly connected with the pragmatic approach. The purpose of this practice-focused study is therefore twofold: through a simple presentation of the main contemporary theories on language, it tends to give students an indispensable theoretical basis for their study of concepts and principles. Meanwhile, the book aims at supporting them in their own empirical work on texts and use of foreign expressive techniques.