Text and Discourse Connectedness

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Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, July 16-21, 1984

Maria-Elisabeth Conte János Sánder Petöfi Emel Sözer(Editor)

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TEXT AND DISCOURSE CONNECTEDNESS
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
List of Contributors
Part I. Particular carriers of connectedness
Anaphoric Pronouns and Noun Phrases as Text Connectors
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Inadequacies of the modern treatment of pronouns as bound variables
3. Semantic classification of pronouns
4. Interpretation of pronouns in terms of the feature system
4.1. Syntactic rules concerning anaphora
4.2. The feature method applied to pronouns
4.3. Concluding remarks
References
Functional Sentence Perspective" and Text Connectedness
Summary
1. Isotopic relations
2. Communicative articulation
3. Informational bipartition
4. Degrees of communicative dynamism
References
Deictic Expressions and the Connexity of Text
Summary
1. Deixis
1.1. Deictic expressions
1.2. Deictic procedures
1.3. Deictic dimensions
1.4. Deictic domains
2. Text deixis
2.1. Characteristics of text deixis
2.2. Text deixis and deixis in texts
3. Newspapers as text types
4. Deixis in newspaper texts
4.1. The use of the speech domain in newspaper texts - establishing subparts of a text on the basis of deictic expressions
4.2. Text connexity and connection of text and world - time deixis in newspaper texts
4.3. Text deixis and text structure
4.4. Conclusions: 'text coherence', 'text cohesion' and text deixis
References
Some Notes on Thematics, Topic, and Typology
Summary
Syntactic typology and sentence theme
References
Subordinate and Embedded Coreference
Summary
Notes
References
Con and Co: Continuity and Marqueurs in Oral Discourse
Summary
Notes
References
How can the Meaning of a Text be Represented?
Summary
References
Modality and Text Constitution
Summary
1. Introductory remarks
2. Illocutionary markers
3. Analysis
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Ellipsis between Connexity and Coherence
Summary
Introduction
1. Sample text and its state-of-affairs configuration
2. First grade composition units and communicates
3. Examining some ellipsis
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Formal Connexity and Pragmatic Cohesion in Anaphora Interpretation
Summary
1. Grammatical roles and anaphora interpretation
2. Implied causal cohesion and formal connexity
3. Explicit causal cohesion and formal connexity
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Relevance of Meaning, Semantic Disposition, and Text Coherence Modelling Reader Expectations from Natural Language Discourse
Summary
Notes
References
The Role of Conjunctions and Particles for Text Connexity
Summary
1. Introductory remarks
2. Conjunctions and connective relations
3. Argumentation
4. Text structure
5. Analysis
6. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Connexity Established by Emphatic Pronouns
Summary
Notes
References
Isotopy, Co reference, and Redundancy
Summary
1. Isotopy
2. Types of isotopy
3. Lexicographic definitions and sub-lexical semantic features
4. Categories of extraction
5. Insertion
6. Sub-lexemic iteration
7. Iteration of whole cognitive meanings
Notes
References
Part II. Text-type specific aspects of connectedness
The Development of Text Competence
Summary
Formal beginnings and endings
Introductory noun phrases
Indefinite articles
Definite articles
Pronouns
Proper names
Summary
Personal pronouns
Internal state terms
Causal connectives
Conclusion
Note
References
A Schema for the Analysis of Communicative Coherence in Interaction The Organization of Consultations
Summary
Notes
References
On Certain Peculiarities of Narrative Cohesion
Summary
Introduction
1. Aspects of the interpretation of narrative
2. A neurolinguistic approach
3. Violations of logico-semantic rules of coreference
3.1. Empty anaphors
3.2. Definite descriptions with an indexical plus predicative function
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
Appendix
References
Dynamics of Cohesion in Lyrical Texts
Summary
1. The phenomenon of textual cohesion
2. Textual cohesion and textual variety
3. The Canção IX by Luís de Camoes
4. Anti-cohesive tendencies of the canzone
5. The cohesion between lines of the same stanza
6. The cohesion between the various stanzas
7. The cohesion of the thematic substance
8. Conclusions
Note
Appendix
Paraphrase as a Coherence Principle in Conversation
Summary
Notes
References
The Concept of Cohesion: its Empirical Status in a Definition and Typology of Texts
Summary
1. Theoretical positions
2. Experimental design
2.1. Independent Variables
2.2. Dependent Variables
2.3. Hypotheses and predictions
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Notes
References
Macro-Structure, Knowledge Base, and Coherence
Summary
Acknowledgements
References
Literary Coherence and Related Topics
Summary
1. Literary ontology, coherence, knowledge
2. Coherence, consistency, acceptability
3. Structural relevance
Notes
References
Elements of Text-Based and Image-Based Connectedness in Comic Stories, and Some Analogies to Cinema and Written Text
Summary
1. Some remarks on textual aspects in comics and comics research
2. Introduction
3. Three sections of description
3.1. Graphic section
3.2. Cinematographic section
3.3. Textual section
3.4. Intersections
3.5. Framed images, framed texts
3.6. Some remarks on syntagmatic elements in cinema
4. Ranges and degrees of connectedness in comics: conformity, sequentialand integrated connexity, cohesion, and coherence
4.1. Conformity
4.2. Connexity
4.3. Cohesion in comics
4.4. Coherence in comics
5. Connective transitions in comics
5.1. Deviations from straight-forward telling: combining narrative units by analogy
5.2. Embedding of narratives into a story: initiating and mediating
5.3. 'Electronic editing' in comics
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Part III. General theoretical and methodological questions of research in connectedness
Understanding, Text, and Coherence
Summary
Understanding, coherence and text-types
Interpretation, coherence and text types
References
Text Coherence and Text Interpretation Processing
Summary
Differences between linguistic analysis and natural reading processes
Conclusion
References
Discursive Construction: Analysis of Discursive Patterns
Summary
Notes
The Objects of Discourse: Connexity and Opposition
Summary
Introduction
1. Postulates
2. Extra-discursive connexity
3. Intra-discursive connexity
Conclusion
References
Relevant Objects and Situations
Summary
References
Connectedness and Discourse Structure Perspective Semantics of Predications and Coherence of Discourse
Summary
1.
2. The functional paradigm, function assignment in language and verbal interaction
3. Construing meaning in a functional grammar
4. Perspectives and connectedness
5. Predications, states of affairs and perspectives in the context of discourse
6. Conclusions
References
The Grades of Reading
Summary
1.
2.
3.
4. Overt structures
5. Motif structures
6. Retrospection
7. The analysis of two poems by F.I. Tjutchev (1803-1873).
8. Prose fiction
9. Event structures
10.
11. Covert structures
References
Connexity, Coherence, and the Semantic Net
Summary
1. Introductory remarks
2. Semantic networks
3. Connexity and coherence in the semantic network N
3.1. Explications
3.2. Analysis of connectedness
3.3. Generalizations and process aspects of N
Notes
References
Semiosis, Coherence, and Universes of Meaning
1. Introduction
2. Universes of meaning
3. Coherence, discursive and non-discursive frames
4. Inventing coherence from frame building
5. Semiosis and coherence
6. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Constitution and Meaning: A Semiotic Text-Theoretical Approach
Summary
Introductory remarks
1. Signum, text, text processing, text theory
2. Text construction, the analysis of a text
3. Concluding remarks
NOTES
References
Appendix
The Role of Inferences in Text Organization
Summary
1. Introduction
2. On the indispensability of inferences
3. On the forms/levels of text organization
4. Inferences and text (re)organization
4.1. On syntactic inferences
4.2. On ILRRR inferences
4.3. On semantic-logical inferences
4.4. On action-oriented inferences
4.5. On inferential (de)composition
4.6. On processing strategies
5. On the rational and intersubjective control of interpretation
6. Conclusion
References
Connectedness of Texts and Relevant Consequences
Summary
Introduction
1. Important relevance-restrictions in Natural Language
1.1. Ex falso quodlibet
1.2. Verum ex quodlibet
1.3. Redundant elements
1.4. Paradoxes of implication
2. Definitions of the relevance criteria
2.1. Aristotelian relevance criterion
2.2. The Körner relevance criterion
Notes
References
Index of Names
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