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Coherence in spontaneous text / edited by Morton Ann Gerns, acher, T. Givón

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, [1995]
Copyright Date
©1995
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Gernsbacher, Morton Ann, Givón, Talmy, 1936-, and Symposium on Coherence in Spontaneous Text (1992 : University of Oregon)
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English.
Contents
Introduction: Coherence as a mental entity / Morton Ann Gernsbacher and T. Givon -- Negotiating coherence in dialogue / Anne H. Anderson -- The negotiation of coherence in face-to-face interaction: Some examples from the extreme bounds / Jennifer Coates -- Coherence in text vs. coherence in mind / T. Givon -- The negotiation of coherence within conversation / Charles Goodwin -- How readers construct situation models for stories: The role of syntactic cues and causal inferences / Walter Kintsch -- Aspects of coherence in written language: a psychological perspective / Anthony J. Sanford and Linda M. Moxey -- Explanatory coherence in understanding and talking about events / Tom Trabasso, Soyoung Suh and Paula Payton -- Improving coherence in written communication / Matthew J. Traxler and Morton Ann Gernsbacher -- Coherence in collaboration: Some examples from conversation / Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs.
Summary
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 te.
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ISBN
9789027276353 (electronic bk.)
9027276358 (electronic bk.)
1283312646
9781283312646
9786613312648
6613312649
1556196377
9781556196379
1556196385 (pbk.)
9781556196386 (pbk.)
9027229236
9027229244
9789027229236
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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