TEXT LINGUISTICS: RELEVANT LINGUISTICS? WAM Carstens School of Languages and Arts, Potchefstroom University for CHE

The title of this paper gives a good indication of what I aim to do: I wish to put forward the notion that the linguistic sub-discipline of text linguistics is a kind of umbrella discipline which makes the study of the different disciplines of linguistics more relevant. By this I mean that knowledge of text linguistics should benefit students also when studying syn-tax, semantics, pragmatics. sociolinguistics, and so forth, because, as I will argue, this knowledge will enhance the value of these disciplines.