Coherence in spontaneous text
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Coherence in spontaneous text
(Typological studies in language, v. 31)
J. Benjamins, 1995
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Chiefly papers presented at the Symposium on Coherence in Spontaneous Text, which was held Spring 1992, University of Oregon
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Coherence as a mental entity (by Gernsbacher, Morton Ann)
- 2. Negotiating coherence in dialogue (by Anderson, Anne H.)
- 3. The negotiation of coherence in face-to-face interaction. Some examples from the extreme bounds (by Coates, Jennifer)
- 4. Coherence in text vs. coherence in mind (by Givon, T.)
- 5. The negotiation of coherence within conversation (by Goodwin, Charles)
- 6. How readers construct situation models for stories. The role of suntactic cues and causal inferences (by Kintsch, Walter)
- 7. Aspects of coherence in written language: a psychological perspective (by Sanford, Anthony J.)
- 8. Explanatory coherence in written communication (by Traxler, Matthew)
- 9. Coherence in collaboration: Some examples form conversation (by Wilkes-Gibbs, Deanna)
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