Under the tumtum tree : from nonsense to sense, a study in nonautomatic comprehension / Marlene Dolitsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolitsky, Marlene.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 5:1.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 5:1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Semantics.

Comprehension.

Meaning (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Any informal discussion of a piece of nonsense literature produces highly varying interpretations which retain, however, a common core. It seemed, then, that nonsense would be a fertile base in the study of nonautomatic comprehension, i.e. comprehension where the word-meaning relations do not seem to be self-evident. And fertile it was! This monograph reports the results of a study into the nonautomatic functioning of the linguistic network which includes idiosyncratic as well as common, coded elements at all levels: semantic, syntactic, and phonetic as well as episodic. To carry it out, a num

Contents:

UNDER THE TUMTUM TREE From Nonsense to Sense, A Study in Nonautomatic Comprehension; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 0. INTRODUCTION; 1. NONSENSE; 1.1. Gobbledegook; 1.2. Semantic contradiction; 1.3. Metalinguistic contradiction; 1.4. Rule-governed other-worldliness; 1.5. Nonsense and absurdity; 1.6. The surrealists and their nonsense; 1.7. Conclusion; 2. THE COMPREHENSION OF NONSENSE; 2.1. Carroll's ""Jabberwocky"" and neologisms; 2.2. Method; 2.3. Results; 2.3.1. The coded homonym; 2.3.2. The prelinguistic level of comprehension

2.3.3. Metaphor and simile2.3.4. Modalization and generalization; 2.3.5. Self-enhancing texts; 2.4. Discussion; 3. NONSENSE AND WORD MEANING; 3.1. Method; 3.2. Results; 3.2.2. Frames; 3.2.3. Phonetic comprehension strategies; 3.2.4. Semantic association; 3.2.5. Onomatopeia; 3.3. Discussion; 4. CHILDREN'S COMPREHENSION OF NONSENSE; 4.1. Method; 4.2. A global study; 4.3. Word meaning; 4.3. Pictures; 4.4. Discussion; 5. THE UNKNOWN LANGUAGE; 5.1. Method; 5.2. Results; 5.3. Further work with unknown language; 5.3.1. Results; 5.3.2. Discussion

5.4. Further work with unknown language: ""fate is unfair"" and ""The mouse's tale""5.4.1. Results; 5.4.2. Discussion; 6. NONSENSE IN OUR DAILY LIVES; 6.1. Nonsense in science fiction; 6.2. Daily nonsense; 6.3. Advertising nonsense; 7. NONSENSE - CONCLUSION; APPENDIXES; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; FOOTNOTES; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-119).

ISBN:

1-283-35938-3

9786613359384

90-272-8005-3

OCLC:

769342245