Marking Discourse Coherence
Author: Uta Lenk
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9783823349389
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Coherence Marking, Comprehension and Persuasion
Author: Judith Maria Helena Kamalski
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscourse Markers
Author: Deborah Schiffrin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780521357180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscourse markers - the particles oh, well, now, then, you know and I mean, and the connectives so, because, and, but and or - perform important functions in conversation. Dr Schiffrin's approach is firmly interdisciplinary, within linguistics and sociology, and her rigourous analysis clearly demonstrates that neither the markers, nor the discourse within which they function, can be understood from one point of view alone, but only as an integration of structural, semantic, pragmatic, and social factors. The core of the book is a comparative analysis of markers within conversational discourse collected by Dr Schiffrin during sociolinguistic fieldwork. The study concludes that markers provide contextual coordinates which aid in the production and interpretation of coherent conversation at both local and global levels of organization. It raises a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues important to discourse analysis - including the relationship between meaning and use, the role of qualitative and quantitative analyses - and the insights it offers will be of particular value to readers confronting the very substantial problems presented by the search for a model of discourse which is based on what people actually say, mean, and do with words in everyday social interaction.
Coherence and Grounding in Discourse
Author: Russell S. Tomlin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9027286272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects the organizational coherence of text and discourse; the concept of cognitive and linguistic event and how events are reflected in text and discourse organization; the nature of linguistic coding of events and other kinds of significant information; and the cognitive bases or cognitive correlates of the linguistic organization of discourse.
The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence
Author: Helmut Gruber
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9027269238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 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.
Collaborating Towards Coherence
Author: Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9027253897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators to help their fellow communicators create coherence from a text. Throughout the book, the context-sensitive and discourse-specific nature of cohesion is stressed: cohesive relations are created and interpreted in particular texts in particular contexts. By investigating the use of cohesion in four different types of discourse, the study shows that cohesion is not uniform across discourse types. The analysis reveals that written dialogue (computer-mediated discussions) and spoken monologue (prepared speech) make use of similar cohesive strategies as spoken dialogue (conversations): in these contexts the communicators' interaction with their fellow communicators leads to a similar outcome. The book suggests that this is an indication of the communicators' attempt to collaborate towards successful communication.
Discourse Across Languages and Cultures
Author: Carol Lynn Moder
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9789027230782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.
The Texture of Discourse
Author: Jan Renkema
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2009-09-30
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9027289085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Information Structuring in Discourse
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9004436723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection presents current work on discourse structuring from a theoretical as well as a processing perspective. The main objectives are the investigation of appropriate levels of analysis for discourse segmentation and criteria for the identification of basic discourse units.
Referential and Relational Discourse Coherence in Adults and Children
Author: Natalia Gagarina
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-06-08
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1501509993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
