Discourse Production And Comprehension
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Discourse Production And Comprehension
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Author : Roy O. Freedle
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1977
Discourse Production And Comprehension written by Roy O. Freedle and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Business & Economics categories.
The present edited collection of multidisciplinary papers is offered as a stimulus to this ultimate goal. Represented here are a wide variety of approaches to the study of discourse: sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, teacher-student interaction, conversational turn-taking, speech acts in developmental psycholinguistics, mathematical representations of discourse structure, the clinical interview, the interactionist approach to discourse, language production theories, Gricean constraints in discourse, and other related issues. -- Preface.
Strategies Of Discourse Comprehension
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Author : Teun A. van Dijk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Strategies Of Discourse Comprehension written by Teun A. van Dijk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Philosophy categories.
Processing Interclausal Relationships
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Author : Jean Costermans
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2014-03-18
Processing Interclausal Relationships written by Jean Costermans and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
During the last 10 years, more and more linguistic and psycholinguistic research has been devoted to the study of discourse and written texts. Much of this research deals with the markers that underline the connections and the breaks between clauses and sentences plus the use of these markers -- by adults and children -- in the production and comprehension of oral and written material. In this volume, major observations and theoretical views from both sides of the Atlantic are brought together to appeal to a wide range of linguists, psychologists, and speech therapists. The volume presents contributions from researchers interested specifically in adult language and from others concerned with developmental aspects of language. Some contributors deal primarily with production, whereas others concentrate on comprehension. Some direct their attention to oral discourse while others focus on written texts. To preserve overall coherence, however, the contributors were given the following recommendations: * With regard to the level of linguistic analysis, the emphasis should be on the clause level -- more particularly, on the relationships between clauses. * Special emphasis should also be placed on linguistic markers (e.g., connectives, markers of segmentation, punctuation). * An overview of a given field of research should be offered, and current research should be put into perspective. * For contributors in the developmental field, attention should be paid to the fact that an account of the acquisition of some language functions throughout childhood should be included only if general principles of interclause relations that might be masked by the exclusive examination of adult evidence could be derived from it.
Discourse Markers In Interaction
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Author : Maria-Josep Cuenca
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-09-05
Discourse Markers In Interaction written by Maria-Josep Cuenca and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The aim of this volume is to bring together researchers interested in investigating the role that Discourse Markers play in language production and comprehension from an experimental or corpus-based perspective. In any kind of human communication, Discourse Markers are part of the game. This omnipresence informs us of a crucial inherent aspect of human language. Yet, as a linguistic category, Discourse Markers remain underdetermined. To gain deeper insight into this complex linguistic category, more systematic work is needed on the production and on the interpretation of Discourse Markers in a variety of situational settings, resorting to different methodological approaches. The contributions in this volume aim at drawing more attention to the double face of Discourse Markers, namely as signals intentionally used by the speaker to facilitate the addressee’s interpretation of the discourse, but also as potential traces of the speaker’s production difficulties. The combination of experimental and corpus-based approaches and the focus on processing of Discourse Markers in both production and comprehension makes this volume a unique contribution in answering the question why we use Discourse Markers in certain situations, but also when we do not.
Discourse Ability And Brain Damage
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Author : Yves Joanette
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Discourse Ability And Brain Damage written by Yves Joanette and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Psychology categories.
Nonspecialists are often surprised by the issues studied and the perspectives assumed by basic scientific researchers. Nowhere has the surprise traditionally been greater than in the field of psychology. College students anticipate that their psychology courses will illuminate their personal problems and their friends' per sonalities; they are nonplussed to discover that the perception of geometric forms and the running ofT-mazes dominates the textbooks. The situation is comparable in the domain of linguistics. Nonprofessional observers assume that linguists study exotic languages, that when they choose to focus on their own language, they will examine the meanings of utterances and the uses to which language is put. Such onlookers are taken aback to learn that the learning of remote languages is a marginal activity for most linguists; they are equally amazed to discover that the lion's share of work in the discipline focuses on issues of syntax and phonol ogy, which are virtually invisible to the speaker of a language. Science moves in its own, often mysterious ways, and there are perfectly good reasons why experimental psychologists prefer to look at mazes rather than at madness, and why linguists study syntax rather than Sanskrit. Nonetheless, it is a happy event for all concerned when the interests of professionals and non specialists begin to move toward one another and a field of study comes to address the "big questions" as well as the experimentally most tractable ones. Discourse Ability and Brain Damage reflects this trend in scientific research.
Discourse Comprehension
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Author : Charles A. Weaver, III
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Discourse Comprehension written by Charles A. Weaver, III and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume is derived from presentations given at a conference hosted in Boulder, Colorado in honor of the 60th birthday of Walter Kintsch. Though the contents of the talks, and thus the chapters, varied widely, all had one thing in common -- they were inspired to some degree by the work of Walter Kintsch. When making plans for an edited book centered around this conference, the editors had a primary goal: to acknowledge the wide variety of researchers and research areas Kintsch had influenced. As a consequence, one of the more unusual elements of this volume is the diversity of the contributors. Researchers from six different countries contributed chapters to this book which is loosely organized around three main thrusts of Kintsch's work: * text-based representations that explain how meaning in a text is constructed, * situation models which represent what the text is about rather than what a text literally says, and * the construction-integration model, Kintsch's most recent work in discourse comprehension.
Asymmetries Between Language Production And Comprehension
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Author : Petra Hendriks
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-07-31
Asymmetries Between Language Production And Comprehension written by Petra Hendriks and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book asserts that language is a signaling system rather than a code, based in part on such research as the finding that 5-year-old English and Dutch children use pronouns correctly in their own utterances, but often fail to interpret these forms correctly when used by someone else. Emphasizing the unique and sometimes competing demands of listener and speaker, the author examines resulting asymmetries between production and comprehension. The text offers examples of the interpretation of word order and pronouns by listeners, and word order freezing and referential choice by speakers. It is explored why the usual symmetry breaks down in children but also sometimes in adults. Gathering contemporary insights from theoretical linguistic research, psycholinguistic studies and computational modeling, Asymmetries between Language Production and Comprehension presents a unified explanation of this phenomenon. “Through a lucid, comprehensive review of acquisition studies on reference-related phenomena, Petra Hendriks builds a striking case for the pervasiveness of asymmetries in comprehension/production. In her view, listeners systematically misunderstand what they hear, and speakers systematically fail to prevent such misunderstandings. She argues that linguistic theory should take stock of current psycholinguistic and developmental evidence on optionality and ambiguity, and recognize language as a signaling system. The arguments are compelling yet controversial: grammar does not specify a one-to-one correspondence between form and meaning; and the demands of the mapping task differ for listeners and speakers. Her proposal is formalized within optimality theory, but researchers working outside this framework will still find it of great interest. In the language-as-code vs. language-as-signal debate, Hendriks puts the ball firmly in the other court.” Ana Pérez-Leroux, University of Toronto, Canada
Discourse Comprehension
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Author : Charles A. Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1995
Discourse Comprehension written by Charles A. Weaver and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Comprehension categories.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Comprehending Oral And Written Language
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Author : Rosalind Horowitz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-10-16
Comprehending Oral And Written Language written by Rosalind Horowitz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Written by respected researchers in their field, this book is about the skills beyond basic word recognition that are necessary for the processing and comprehension of spoken and written language. The major topics presented are as follows: language and text analysis; cognitive processing and comprehension; development of literacy; literacy and schooling; and, factors influencing listening and reading.
Coherence In Spontaneous Text
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Author : Morton Ann Gernsbacher
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1995-03-23
Coherence In Spontaneous Text written by Morton Ann Gernsbacher and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic representation as the speech producer had in mind. In producing and comprehending a text, be it spoken or written, the interlocutors collaborate towards coherence. They negotiate for a common ground of shared topicality, reference and thematic structure – thus toward a similar mental representation of the text. In conversation, the negotiation takes place between the present participants. In writing or oral narrative, the negotiation takes place in the mind of the text producer, between the text producer and his/her mental representation of the mind of the absent or inactive interlocutor. The cognitive mechanisms that underlie face-to-face communication thus continue to shape text production and comprehension in non-interactive contexts.Most of the papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Coherence in Spontaneous Text, held at the University of Oregon in the spring of 1992.