Cooperating with written texts : the pragmatics and comprehension of written texts /
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. |
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| Description: | vii, 701 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in anthropological linguistics 5 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1452951 |
Table of Contents:
- Cooperating with written texts: Towards a science of the text. Issues and overview / Dieter Stein
- Pt. I. Writing, literacy, and comprehension: psycholinguistic aspects. On the relationship between writing system, written language, and text processing / Florian Coulmas. Pause and intonation contours in written and oral discourse / Gisbert Keseling. Aspects of writing development in argumentative texts / Gerhard Augst. Psycholinguistic processes in the comprehension of written texts / Simon Garrod. Coherence and coordination in written text: Reading time studies / Gert Rickheit, Udo Gunther and Lorenz Sichelschmidt. Levels of language comprehension and systems of information-processing / Johannes Engelkamp
- Pt. II. Developmental aspects: the evolution of written texts. The pragmatics of medieval texts / Heinz Bergner. The impact of sudden literacy on text comprehensibility: Mohawk / Marianne Mithun. Scientific texts and deictic structures / Konrad Ehlich. Immediacy and displacement in consciousness and language / Wallace Chafe
- Pt. III. Literary texts: inferring meaning(s). Fictional conversation and its pragmatic status / LuMing R. Mao. Presupposition and pragmatic inference in a literary text / Helen Aristar-Dry. How to cope with dramatic texts including avant-garde playscripts / Herbert Grabes. The pragmatics of literary texts / Lothar Bredella. "Deep structure signals" in fiction / Volker Schulz. The pragmatics of poetic discourse / Janet Byron Anderson. A pragmatic role for inserted clauses in literary texts / Danielle Forget
- Pt. IV. Pragmatics and comprehension of individual text types. Teaching conscientious resistance to cooperation with text: The role of pragmatics in critical thinking / Susan Meredith Burt. From private writing to public oration: The case of Puritan wills. Cognitive discourse analysis applied to the study of genre change / Ulrich Bach. Parallelism in advertising copy / Wolfram Bublitz. Notice is hereby given to hide ulterior motives / Leo Hickey. Renarration: Oral L1 and L2 narrations as bases of written narratives / Rudiger Zimmermann. Strategies in text production and text comprehension: A new perspective / Ruth Wodak. The axiological structure of discourse / Tomasz P. Krzeszowski
- Pt. V. At the interface of linguistics and pragmatics: individual linguistic structures. On the (In)dependence of syntax and pragmatics: Evidence from the postposition -ra in Persian / Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam. VP inversion and aspect in written texts / Gregory L. Ward and Betty J. Birner. Scope in discourse: Pragmatics or syntax? / Richard A. Rhodes
- Pt. VI. Computational modeling of text comprehension. 'Parsing' procedures for stories / Yeshayahu Shen. Convergent evidence for a set of coherence relations / Kathleen Dahlgren. Text pragmatics and computational modeling / Annely Rothkegel. Integrating knowledge sources for the generation of referential expressions / Russell Block.