The central idea of this volume is the insistence that the structure of a part of a text must be explained in light of the structure of the whole.
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Holistic Discourse Analysis is not a plea to abandon the Analysis of lower levels of grammar, but to enrich the study of them by putting them in broader perspective.
This needs to be repeated anew to every generation of linguistics students as a warning against analytic nearsightedness-the fixation on parts of a text without regard to the whole.
The central idea of this volume is the insistence that the structure of a part of a text must be explained in light of the structure of the whole