Linguistic analysis of the text (spoken and written, literary and not). The aim is to familiarize students with the methods of analyzing texts in different communication environments, to study the basic concepts for describing the linguistic character of the text, the coherence and the linguistic parts that link the text components and the connection of the concepts that make up a text.

To provide students with the necessary knowledge for:

• the distinction and characterization of different texts
• anaphora resolution
• thematic analysis and classification of texts
• comment extraction from texts
• the evaluation of syntactic and semantic coherence of texts
• the detection of linguistic structures in monolingual and multilingual texts
• extraction and abstraction of text summaries

Week #1: Introduction to textual linguistics: general principles - the definition of text and textuality

Week #2: Speech and Text linguistics

Week #3: Text and Content: what is the relationship between text and content, how it is detected and how it is interpreted

Week #4: Tet Genres and their characteristics - basic concepts of categorizing text genres - language issues and structure in different types of text

Week #5: Text coherence: Fundamentals of textual coherence and cohesiveness, syntactic coherence, semantic coherence, text readability, textual coherence calculation techniques - how coherence takes place on specific examples of communication circumstances eg, political speech, etc.

Week #6: Textual indicators: language pragmatics, identification of persons, objects, facts and procedures in textual contexts

Week #7: Anaphora Resolution: basic principles, automated resolution techniques

Week #8: Summary extraction, summary construction, basic principles and semi(automated) summarizers, evaluation methods, text genres and summarization

Week #9: Text Annotation: comment extraction from texts, annotation and text genres, evaluation, the role of annotation on text comprehension

Week #10: Comparison of linguistic textual structures: recognition of linguistic structures in different types of texts, linguistic structures in monolingual and multilingual texts

Week #11: Relationship between linguistics and text classification techniques

Week #12: Text linguistics and communication

Week #13: Recap

• "Γλωσσική Διδασκαλία και Σύσταση των Κειμένων”. (2005). Α. Αρχάκης, εκδ. Πατάκης

lectures, discussions

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Written examination and compulsory work for each subject