Coherence Marking, Comprehension and Persuasion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coherence Marking, Comprehension and Persuasion write by Judith Maria Helena Kamalski. This book was released on 2007. Coherence Marking, Comprehension and Persuasion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Referential and Relational Discourse Coherence in Adults and Children
Referential and Relational Discourse Coherence in Adults and Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Referential and Relational Discourse Coherence in Adults and Children write by Natalia Gagarina. This book was released on 2020-06-08. Referential and Relational Discourse Coherence in Adults and Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book combines studies on referential as well as relational coherence and includes approaches to written and to spoken language, to production and to comprehension, to language specific and to cross-linguistic issues, to monolingual, bilingual and L2-acquisition. The theoretical issues and empirical findings discussed are of importance not only for theoretical linguistics, but also have a broad potential of practical implication.
The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence
The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence write by Helmut Gruber. This book was released on 2014-11-15. The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the realization and signalling of coherence relations in various genres and languages, their acquisition and use by first- and second-language learners and university students, the relationship between coherence relations and genre-specific discourse structure, and extensions of the coherence paradigm to multimodal discourse and visual art. This collection will be of interest to researchers from linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication, and multimodal semiotics.
Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition
Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition write by Ted Sanders. This book was released on 2009-12-22. Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. Causal connectives and causative auxiliaries are among the salient markers of causal construals. Cognitive scientists and linguists are interested in how much of this causal modeling is specific to a given culture and language, and how much is characteristic of general human cognition. Speakers of English, for example, can choose between because and since or between therefore and so. How different are these from the choices made by Dutch speakers, who speak a closely related language, but (unlike English speakers) have a dedicated marker for non-volitional causality (daardoor)? The central question in this volume is: What parameters of categorization shape the use of causal connectives and auxiliary verbs across languages? The book discusses how differences between even quite closely related languages (English, Dutch, Polish) can help us to elaborate the typology of levels and categories of causation represented in language. In addition, the volume demonstrates convergence of linguistic, corpus-linguistic and psycholinguistic methodologies in determining cognitive categories of causality. The basic notion of causality appears to be an ideal linguistic phenomenon to provide an overview of methods and, perhaps more importantly, invoke a discussion on the most adequate methodological approaches to study fundamental issues in language and cognition.
The Texture of Discourse
The Texture of Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Texture of Discourse write by Jan Renkema. This book was released on 2009-09-30. The Texture of Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this monograph is to give impetus to research into one of the central questions in discourse studies: what makes a sequence of sentences or utterances a discourse? The theoretical framework for describing the possibilities of discourse continuation is delineated by two principles: the discursive and the dialogic principle. The ‘chord’ of discourse is unfolded in a tripartite ‘wire’: Conjunction, Adjunction and Interjunction, each containing three aspects, leading to a Connectivity Model. This new three-by-three taxonomy of discourse relations incorporates findings from several theories and approaches that have evolved over the last three decades, including Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetorical Structure Theory. In comparing this model to other models, this book presents a state-of-the-art of discourse relation analysis combined with detailed accounts of many examples. This monograph furthermore proposes a new way of presenting discourse structures—in ‘connectivity graphs’—followed by eleven commandments for the segmentation and labeling of discourse, and three procedures for disambiguation if more labels are applicable. This study can provide a base for corpus linguistic analysis on discourse structures, computational approaches to discourse generation and cognitive experimental research of discourse competence.
