Language, Text, and Knowledge: Mental Models of Expert Communication

✍ Scribed by Lita Lundquist (editor); Robert J. Jarvella (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Series: Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP]; 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Lexical and dynamic topoi in semantic description: A theoretical and practical differentiation between words and terms
Does routine formulation change meaning? - The impact of genre on word semantics in the legal domain
Noun phrases in specialized communication. The cognitive processing of the Danish s-genitive construction
Semantic roles in expert texts - exemplified by the Patient role in judgments Åse Almlund
Knowledge, events, and anaphors in texts for specific purposes
On the structure of legal knowledge : The importance of knowing legal rules for understanding legal texts
Communicative situations as reflected in text structure. On legal text production and background knowledge
Transfer of knowledge in cross-cultural discourse
Argumentation and knowledge - An empirical study on inference-making in expert and novice reasoning
Knowledge representation in the domain of economics
On judging quantities in text without expert knowledge
Risk portrayal and risk appreciation as a problem in language use
Appendix: The TV judgment
List of contributors
Subject index