A Textlingustic Approach To Le Lac By Lamartine

The text is a meaningful linguistic unit that the sequential sentences form together. This sequence is not random, has a communicative function. This feature allows the text to be seen as a meaningful, sequential unit. The textlinguistics beginning with the language studies beyond the sentence reveals the structure of the texts, their grammatical and contextual form of fiction and communicative functions and shows them with practical examples. The textlinguistics describes the general conditions of the forming a text, distinguishes the text from non-text and creates criteria to classify the texts and tries to describe and explains the common and different features between the texts. The differences in use of the texts according to contexts, their functions in the communication between people are also within the scope of the research area of the textlinguistics (Şenöz, 2005: 22-23). According to Beaugrande ve Dressler (1981), in order to be a sentence sequence a text, it should have some criteria such as cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, intertextuality. The most obvious feature of the poem language is the employment of a short and elliptic narration. This feature requires to avoid employment unnecessary words and to employ linguistic signs in a large meaning frame. In this context, in a poem in which the forces of i

Keywords

Lamartine, Le Lac (The lake), Poem, Textlinguistics, Cohesion, Coherence.