Lingwistyka tekstu a Analiza dialogu – w sprawie nieporozumień wokół ich przedmiotowej dyferencjacji

In Polish linguistics, the terms text and discourse are used interchangeably and often imprecisely. Discourse, in Polish linguistics, is either used to describe a dialogue consisting of (a sequence of) verbal utterances or as a synonym of the word text. A direct consequence of this is an imprecise definition of the research subject of both text linguistics and discourse analysis. The present paper attempts to clarify this issue, leading to a conclusion that the essential difference between text linguistics and discourse analysis is that the former merely considers language aspects of the discourse, while the latter also deals with its sociological, ethnological and other aspects.