Text representation: linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects

✍ Scribed by Ted Sanders, Joost Schilperoord, Wilbert Spooren

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 366
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The chapters of this volume are all based on papers presented at the International workshop on text representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects, held at Utrecht University. The theme of this title is text representation, or more specifically the linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects thereof. Text representation is a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role in both text production and text understanding. In text production it is the basis for lexical retrieval and for producing and combining the discourse units. In text understanding it is the result of the decoding of the linguistic information in a discourse. This book characterizes a field of study in which the two disciplines, linguistics and psycholinguistics, are growing together.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Text Representation......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
CHAPTER 1Text representation as an interface between language and its users......Page 9
SECTION 1 Accessibility in text and text processing......Page 34
CHAPTER 2 Accessibility theory: an overview......Page 36
CHAPTER 3 The influence of text cues on the allocation of attention during reading......Page 95
CHAPTER 4 Lexical access in text production......Page 117
SECTION 2 Relation. al coherence in text and text processmg......Page 131
CHAPTER 5 Semantic and pragmatic relationsand their intended effects......Page 133
CHAPTER 6 On the production of causal-contrastive although-sentences in context......Page 158
CHAPTER 7 Beyond elaboration: the interaction of relations and focus in coherent text......Page 186
CHAPTER 8 Unstressed en/ and as a markerof joint relevance......Page 202
CHAPTER 9 Argumentation, explanation and causality......Page 236
SECTION 3 From text representation to knowledgerepresentation......Page 252
CHAPTER 10 Constructing inferences and relations duringtext comprehension......Page 253
CHAPTER 11 Thinging about bodies of knowledge......Page 276
SECTION 4 Segmentation in text and text representation......Page 310
CHAPTER 12 Conceptual and linguistic processes in textproduction......Page 312
CHAPTER 13 Subordination and discourse segmentation revisited, or: Why matrix clauses may be more dependent than complements......Page 340
Subject index......Page 361