Coherence in spontaneous text / edited by Morton Ann Gerns, acher, T. Givón.
The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic represent...
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©1995.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 31. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic representation as the speech producer had in mind. In producing and comprehending a text, be it spoken or written, the interlocutors collaborate towards coherence. They negotiate for a common ground of shared topicality, reference and thematic structure -- thus toward a similar mental representation of the te. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789027276353 9027276358 1283312646 9781283312646 9786613312648 6613312649 |
| Language: | English. |