Prolegomena to inferential discourse processing / Roger G. van de Velde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Velde, Roger G. van de.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 5:2.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 5:2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Inference.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is characteristic of discourse expression (termed 'cohesion'). On the other hand, it makes clear which human reasoning processes are involved in the construction of the different levels of organization which are characteristic of text content (termed 'coherence'). Much attention is devoted to the hierarchical relati

Contents:

PROLEGOMENA TO INFERENTIAL DISCOURSE PROCESSING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyrigh page; Dedication; Table of contents; 0. INTRODUCTION; 1. ON SYNTACTIC PROCESSING; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Cohesion as syntactic organization; 1.3. Cohesion as a conspicuous companion; 1.4. On the limited role of cohesion; 1.5. Coherence as semantic organization; 1.6. Coherence as a dominating companion; 1.7. Cohesion as a deficient companion; 1.8. Cohesion as a misleading companion; 1.9. On inferential discourse processing and rational argumentation; 1.10. Summary; 2. ON SEMANTIC PROCESSING

2.1. Introduction2.2. On ILRRR information; 2.3. On ILRRR inferences repairing defective cohesion; 2.4. On ILRRR inferences impeding cohesion; 2.5. On the indispensable role of ILRRR inferences; 2.6. On initial KUIP conditions; 2.7. On semantic-logical inferences; 2.8. On the rational underpinning of discourse processing; 2.9. On the indispensability of coherence; 2.10. Summary; 3. ON ACTION PROCESSING; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. On action and communication; 3.3. On cotextual information about actions; 3.4. On contextual information about actions; 3.4.1. On pragmatic contexts

3.4.2. On action contexts3.4.3. On social contexts; 3.4.4. On the context integrativity condition; 3.5. On the hypothetical reconstruction of action co(n)texts; 3.6. On multileveled action processing; 3.6.1. On supplying co(n)textual information; 3.6.2. On multilayered inferential processes; 3.6.3. On the higher-level coherence construction; 3.7. Summary; 4. ON DISORDERED PROCESSING; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. On disordered syntactic processing; 4.2.1. On ordering syntactic constituents; 4.2.2. On ordering separate syntactic elements; 4.3. On disordered semantic processing

4.3.1. On schizophrenic language4.3.2. On ILRRR information in schizophrenia; 4.4. On disordered action processing; 4.4.1. On processing discourse-internal actions; 4.4.2. On processing discourse-external actions; 4.4.3. On rehabilitating disordered action processing; 4.5. Summary; 5. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-35937-5

9786613359377

90-272-8004-5

OCLC:

769342230