Text Knowledge and Object Knowledge
Published on 1. April 1993
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-0-86187-136-0 (ISBN)
Description
What are we doing when we produce texts? And what kind of knowledge do we presuppose when we are doing it? What is the relationship between object knowledge (as word knowledge) and text knowledge (as knowledge of language use) with respect to text generation? This work makes a new contribution towards solving the problem of text generation. Using the systematic-functional approach, the author presents the hypothesis that text knowledge allows us to represent object knowledge in terms of communicative relevance. The materials taken for analysis are German and English book announcements for scientific literature. The analysis leads to a system of top-down computer modelling of particular processes to textualization in a cognitive paradigm.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references, indices
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
409 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86187-136-0 (9780861871360)
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Content
Part 1 Introduction: assumptions; procedure and goal; sections; the organization of the book. Part 2 What is meant by text knowledge?: definition; text production; text topic (text semantics); text function (text pragmatics); text connectivity (text syntax); properties of the text type; principles of computational modelling. Part 3 Text generation: definition; object knowledge, linguistic knowledge, text knowledge; static and dynamic aspects; text structure and processes of choice; rhetorical structures; text planning in machine translation; text structure as structure of action. Part 4 Text actions: intention and change of context; text actions and text production; structure and process of text production; internal structure of text actions; complex text actions; text action schema (TAS). Part 5 Text grammar I - selections: overview; units of the object construction; interactional knowledge; text grammar and lexicalization. Part 6 Text grammar II.1 - principles of composition: overview; principles of sequencing; directionality as dynamic principle of text forming; text connectivity patterns; strategies of composition. Part 7 Text grammar II.2 - sequencing operations: overview; operations - FRAMING, CHAINING, PAIRING; series of PAIRING; connectivity forms (CONFO). Part 8 Integrated view of the text grammar: the idea of text grammar; design of text production.