Cooperating with Written Texts : The Pragmatics and Comprehension of Written Texts / Dieter Stein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stein, Dieter, editor.

Series:

Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comprehension.

Discourse analysis--Psychological aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Pragmatics.

Written communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (714 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Cooperating with written texts: Towards a science of the text. Issues and overview / Stein, Dieter

Part I. Writing, literacy, and comprehension: psycholinguistic aspects

On the relationship between writing system, written language, and text processing / Coulmas, Florian

Pause and intonation contours in written and oral discourse / Keseling, Gisbert

Aspects of writing development in argumentative texts / Augst, Gerhard

Psycholinguistic processes in the comprehension of written texts / Garrod, Simon

Coherence and coordination in written text: Reading time studies / Rickheit, Gert / Günther, Udo / Sichelschmidt, Lorenz

Levels of language comprehension and systems of information-processing / Engelkamp, Johannes

Part II. Developmental aspects: the evolution of written texts

The pragmatics of medieval texts / Bergner, Heinz

The impact of sudden literacy on text comprehensibility: Mohawk / Mithun, Marianne

Scientific texts and deictic structures / Ehlich, Konrad

Immediacy and displacement in consciousness and language / Chafe, Wallace

Part III. Literary texts: inferring meaning(s)

Fictional conversation and its pragmatic status / Mao, LuMing R.

Presupposition and pragmatic inference in a literary text / Aristar-Dry, Helen

How to cope with dramatic texts including avant-garde playscripts / Grabes, Herbert

The pragmatics of literary texts / Bredella, Lothar

"Deep structure signals" in fiction / Schulz, Volker

The pragmatics of poetic discourse / Byron Anderson, Janet

A pragmatic role for inserted clauses in literary texts / Forget, Danielle

Part IV. Pragmatics and comprehension of individual text types

Teaching conscientious resistance to cooperation with text: The role of pragmatics in critical thinking / Burt, Susan Meredith

From private writing to public oration: The case of Puritan wills. Cognitive discourse analysis applied to the study of genre change / Bach, Ulrich

Parallelism in advertising copy / Bublitz, Wolfram

Notice is hereby given to hide ulterior motives / Hickey, Leo

Renarration: Oral L1 and L2 narrations as bases of written narratives / Zimmermann, Rüdiger

Strategies in text production and text comprehension: A new perspective / Wodak, Ruth

The axiological structure of discourse / Krzeszowski, Tomasz P.

Part V. At the interface of linguistics and pragmatics: individual linguistic structures

On the (In)dependence of syntax and pragmatics: Evidence from the postposition -rá in Persian / Dabir-Moghaddam, Mohammad

VP inversion and aspect in written texts / Ward, Gregory L. / Birner, Betty J.

Scope in discourse: Pragmatics or syntax? / Rhodes, Richard A.

Part VI. Computational modeling of text comprehension

'Parsing' procedures for stories / Shen, Yeshayahu

Convergent evidence for a set of coherence relations / Dahlgren, Kathleen

Text pragmatics and computational modeling / Rothkegel, Annely

Integrating knowledge sources for the generation of referential expressions / Block, Russell

Subject index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110881196

3110881195

OCLC:

922947355