Summary: | Papers from the conference on [title], held at the U. of Giesen (Germany), September 1989, broadly focused on the development of a science of language used in written texts. The volume is in six parts: writing, literacy, and comprehension--psycholinguistic aspects; developmental aspects--the evolution of written texts; literary texts--inferring meaning(s); pragmatics and comprehension of individual text types; at the interface of linguistics and pragmatics--individual linguistic structures; and computational modeling of text comprehension. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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