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Processing interclausal Relationships Studies in the Production and Comprehension of Text
304 Pages
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Psychology Press
300 Pages
by
Psychology Press
304 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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During the last 10 years, more and more linguistic and psycholinguistic research has been devoted to the study of discourse and written texts. Much of this research deals with the markers that underline the connections and the breaks between clauses and sentences plus the use of these markers -- by adults and children -- in the production and comprehension of oral and written material. In this... Read more
Contents: J. Costermans, M. Fayol, Introduction. Part I:Processing Interclausal Relationships: A Many-Sided Topic. M. Gernsbacher, Cohesion Cues Mapping During Comprehension. L.R. Shapiro, J.A. Hudson, Coherence and Cohesion in Children's Stories. Part II:On Connectives. J. Caron, Towards a Procedural Approach of the Meaning of Connectives. L. Noordman, W. Vonk, The Different Functions of a Conjunction in Constructing a Representation of the Discourse. E.M. Segal, J.F. Duchan, Interclausal Connectives as Indicators of Structuring in Narrative. S.R. Braunwald, The Development of Because and So: Connecting Language, Thought, and Social Understanding. A. McCabe, C. Petersen, Meaningful Mistakes: The Systematicity of Children's Connectives in Narrative Discourse and the Social Origins of This Usage About the Past. Part III:From Segmenting To Relating. M. Fayol, On Acquiring and Using Punctuation. A Study of Written French. L. Heurley, Processing Units in Written Texts: Paragraphs or Information Blocks? Y. Bestgen, J. Costermans, Temporal Markers of Narrative Structure: Studies in Production. Part IV:Beyond the Cohesion/Segmentation Dichotomy. M. Hickmann, Information Status and Grounding in Children's Narratives: A Crosslinguistic Perspective. B. Schneuwly, Textual Organizers and Text Types: Ontogenetic Aspects in Writing. D.J. Townsend, Processing Clauses and Their Relationships During Comprehension.
Biography
Jean Costermans, Michel Fayol
"All in all, the book is a welcome addition to the analysis of discourse."
—Studies in Second Language"The timing of this book could not be better, as there is a growing amount of research interest in linguistics and psycholinguists within the area of discourse and written texts in both the US and Europe. The ideas, methods, and results of the research contained in these chapters seek to answer many questions regarding interclause relationships, both old and new, and to motivate research in new areas."
—The Phonetician
