Abstracting from the perspective of text production

摘要

This paper takes the view that an abstract itself is a text which is subjected to general and specific conditions of text-production. It is assumed that the goal—namely the forming of the abstract as a text—controls the whole process of abstracting. This goal-oriented view contrasts to most approaches in this domain which are source-text oriented. Further, production strategies are described in terms of text structure building processes which are re-constructed with methods of modelling in the area of text-linguistics and computational linguistics. This leads to a close relationship between the representation of the model and the resulting text. In this view, examples are given in which authentical material of abstracts is analysed according to the model. The model itself integrates three text levels (content, function, form) which are combined and represented in terms of the writer's activities.