Thematics : interdisciplinary studies / edited by Max Louwerse, Willie van Peer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Louwerse, Max.

Peer, Willie van.

Series:

Converging evidence in language and communication research ; v. 3.

Converging evidence in language and communication research, 1566-7774 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--Themes, motives.

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of 'themes' in texts and how they are structured in language use.Much of the literature on Thematics is scattered over different disciplines (literature, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science), which this detailed collection pulls together in one coherent overview. The result is a new landmark for the study and understanding of themes in their everyday manifestation.

Contents:

Thematics

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: Structures and processes

Chapter 1: Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension

Chapter 2: Situation models and themes

Chapter 3: Conditions of updating during reading

Chapter 4: Evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points

Chapter 5: Responding to style

Chapter 6: The definite article the as a cue to map thematic information

Chapter 7: Thematic management in Korean

Chapter 8: On the notions of theme and topic in psychological process models of text comprehension

Chapter 9: Themes and hierarchical structure of written texts

Chapter 10: Computational retrieval of themes

Part 2: Contents and contexts

Chapter 11: Thematics today

Chapter 12: Seven trends in recent thematics and a case study

Chapter 13: Where do literary themes come from?

Chapter 14: Motives and motifs in visual thematics

Chapter 15: Masking one's themes

Chapter 16: Themes of nation

Chapter 17: Tracking a theme

Chapter 18: Why themes matter

Chapter 19: Moving targets

Chapter 20: Quantitative hermeneutics

Chapter 21: Prototype effect vs. rarity effect in literary style

Chapter 22: Parsing for the theme

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612162183

9781282162181

1282162187

9789027297785

9027297789