Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Legacy of János S. Petőfi: Text Linguistics, Literary Theory and Semiotics

János S. Petőfi (1931-2013) was one of the founders of Text Linguistics in Germany in the early ‘70s. He developed different text models, the most famous of which were the Text Structure World Structure Theory (TeSWeST) and Semiotic Textology. In this volume, some of his colleagues and disciples discuss his theoretical contributions to prove the enormous impact of his thoughts in the fields of linguistics, literary theory, rhetoric and semiotics. The essays here consider the notion of coherence, which Petőfi deemed to be the only sufficient condition for textuality, the relationships between his textual models and disciplines such as cognitive, computational and corpus linguistics, and his contributions to the analysis of literary and multimedial texts. About the Author Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga studied Spanish and Italian Philology and Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she is now Associate Professor at the Romance Studies Department. She has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Heidelberg (with a Humboldt Fellowship), Bergamo, Marburg, Tübingen and Turin. Her research interests are in the fields of contrastive and text linguistics, with particular focus on information structure, discourse markers and anaphors. She is working on the acquisition of Italian and Spanish discourse markers and has authored more than 60 papers and the book La interfaz lengua-texto. Un modelo de estructura informativa (2015), in cooperation with Angela Ferrari. She is currently co-editor-in-chief of the journal Cuadernos de Filología Italiana and the book series Sprache – Gesellschaft – Geschichte. Luciano Vitacolonna is a Researcher at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. His main research interests are in textual theory, literary theory and semiotics. His publications include Per un paradigma semiotico del testo (1989), Principi e contributi di semiotica del testo (1999), Divagazioni testuali. Studi di testologia semiotica (2000), Semiotica (2008), and Studi di semiotica testuale (2008). He edited, together with Petőfi, Analisi e interpretazione dei testi letterari (special issue of Versus, 1983) and the 3rd volume of the series Sistemi segnici e il loro uso nella comunicazione umana devoted to La Testologia Semiotica e la comunicazione umana multimediale (1996).