Focus and Coherence in Discourse Processing

✍ Scribed by Gert Rickheit (editor); Christopher Habel (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 316
Series: Research in Text Theory; 22
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Focus
Distinguishing between Explicit and Implicit Focus during Text Comprehension
Notes on Plural Reference and the Scenario-Mapping Principle in Comprehension
Focussing in Spatial Mental Models
Focussing and the Process of Pronominal Resolution
Focussing and the Use of German beide
Part II: Coherence
Special Determinants of Coherence in Spoken Dialogue
Coherence Regained
Comprehension Processes as a Means for Text Generation
Economical Principles in Coherence Management: A Cognitive Systems Approach
The Notion of Coherence in Discourse
Cohesion Processes, Coherence, and Anomaly Detection
Distributed Text Structure Parsing – Computing Thematic Progressions in Expository Texts
Causality in Discourse
Focus and Anaphora. A Selected Bibliography (1985–1993)
Subject Index

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