Text representation : linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects / edited by Ted Sanders, Joost Schilperoord, Wilbert Spooren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanders, Ted, 1963-

Schilperoord, Joost.

Spooren, Wilbert.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 8.

Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Psychological aspects--Congresses.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together linguistics and psycholinguistics. Text representation is considered a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role in both text production and text understanding.The focus is on referential and relational coherence and the role of linguistic characteristics as processing instructions from a text linguistic and discourse psychology point of view. Consequently, this book presents various research methodologies: linguistic analysis, text analysis, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, argumentation analysis, and the experimental psycholinguistic study of text processing. The authors compare, test, and evaluate linguistic and processing theories of text representation.A state of the art volume in an emerging field of interest, located at the very heart of our communicative behavior: the study of text and text representation.

Contents:

Text Representation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Text representation as an interface between language and its users

Section 1: Accessibility in text and text processing

Chapter 2: Accessibility theory:an overview

Chapter 3: The influence of text cues on the allocation of attention during reading

Chapter 4: Lexical access in text production

Section 2: Relational coherence in text and text processing

Chapter 5: Semantic and pragmatic relations and their intended effects

Chapter 6: On the production of causal-contrastive although-sentences in context

Chapter 7: Beyond elaboration: the interaction of relations and focus in coherent text

Chapter 8: Unstressed en /and as a marker of joint relevance

Chapter 9: Argumentation, explanation and causality

Section 3: From text representation to knowledge representation

Chapter 10: Constructing inferences and relations during text comprehension

Chapter 11: Thinking about bodies of knowledge

Section 4: Segmentation in text and text representation

Chapter 12: Conceptual and linguistic processes in text production

Chapter 13: Subordination and discourse segmentation revisited, or: Why matrix clauses may be more dependent than complements

Subject index

The series HUMAN COGNITIVE PROCESSING.

Notes:

Based on papers presented at a conference held July 1997, Utrecht University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612162107

9781282162105

1282162101

9789027297679

9027297673