Shin, Ji-Yeon. 2007. Seven Texualities of Poetry Text. Textlinguistics 23. Beaugrande & Dressler(1981) has faced some objections that their theory of Seven texualities are not good enough to analyze the real nature of text production, text comprehens...
Shin, Ji-Yeon. 2007. Seven Texualities of Poetry Text. Textlinguistics 23. Beaugrande & Dressler(1981) has faced some objections that their theory of Seven texualities are not good enough to analyze the real nature of text production, text comprehension, and text itself. Especially intentionality, acceptability, informativity, intertextuality has been thought too problematic to be taken as texualities. In this paper, it is shown that all of the seven texualities can be good criteria for text analysis. In particular, to analyze poetry, intentionality, acceptability, informativity has been important analysis criteria. To Beaugrande & Dressler(1981), informativity is related to the new. Therefore, poetry aims high informativity, so to speak, every poem has to be fresh and new all the time so that, we can give the freshness the name of emotional informativity, contrary to the intellectual informativity usually argumentative text has. To be new, poetry should not be easily understood to the readers, it choose the low acceptability so that the syntactic structure of poetry has broken intentionally to make readers confused in grasping the meaning of the text. Consequently, the poetry text has low cohesion, coherence, acceptability, and high intentionality and informativity.