Discourse Processing
Published on 14. May 2014
625 pages
978-0-08-086662-8 (ISBN)
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Research on discourse (or text) processing has only recently come into its own. It builds on the work of text analysis which has a long and distinguished history, but modern developments in psychology (e.g. memory research), artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy have contributed to this emergence in the last decade as a lively and promising research area.This book contains 46 selected and edited contributions from the International Symposium held in Fribourg in 1981, and represents a truly international overview of the developments in research on written and oral discourse. The contributions have been grouped according to problem area and not according to methodology, with the intention of focusing on the important issues in the field of discourse processing and of showing how diverse approaches contribute to a better understanding of the problems involved. The main themes are: text structure, coherence, inference, memory processes, attention and control, goal perspectives, and educational implications.
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Burlington
Netherlands
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978-0-08-086662-8 (9780080866628)
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August Flammer | Walter Kintsch
Discourse Processing
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10/1982
Elsevier
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Content
- Front Cover
- Discourse Processing
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- PART 1: TEXT STRUCTURE
- Chapter 1. Plans and Goals in Understanding Episodes
- Chapter 2. What Makes a Good Story? Towards the Production of Conversational Narratives
- Chapter 3. Text Divisions and Story Grammars
- Chapter 4. Children's Knowledge of Social Action: Effects on Comprehension and Recall of Simple Stories
- Chapter 5. Levels of Functioning in Semantic Memory and Levels of Comprehension of Texts
- Chapter 6. That's Important but is it Interesting? Two Factors in Text Processing
- Chapter 7. Expectancy Structures in Prose Reading
- Chapter 8. How do Different Readers Learn with Different Text Organizations?
- PART 2: COHERENCE
- Chapter 9. Towards a Processing Account of Reference
- Chapter 10. Towards a Model o f Macrostructure Search
- Chapter 11. Accept ability of Story Continuations
- Chapter 12. Semantic Discontinuities as Text Production Strategies
- PART 3: INFERENCE
- Chapter 13. How Do You Fill in this xxx? On some Interpretation Processes
- Chapter 14. Inference Processes in Discourse Comprehension Measured by Sentence Reading Times
- Chapter 15. Answering Questions from Text: A Process Model
- PART 4: MEMORY
- Chapter 16. Memory for Text
- Chapter 17. Knowledge Updating in Text Processing
- Chapter 18. Retrieval Cues and the Remembering of Prose: A Review
- Chapter 19. Working Memory and Contextual Processing in Reading
- Chapter 20. Age, Reading Ability, and Semantic Integration: An Information Processing Model
- Chapter 21. The Modality Effect on Text Processing as a Function of Organization
- Chapter 22. Remembering what You Said versus Remembering what You Wrote: Children's Recall of their own Oral and Written Narratives
- Chapter 23. Effects of Verbal and Pictorial Context Cues on Free Recall and Clustering of Text Themes
- PART 5: ATTENTION AND CONTROL
- Chapter 24. Allocation of Attention During Reading
- Chapter 25. Intentional Learning in Text Processing
- Chapter 26. Recall and Flexibility of Linguistic Processing
- Chapter 27. Activation and Restructuring of Prior Knowledge and their Effects on Text Processing
- Chapter 28. Metacognitive Regulation of Text Processing: Aspects and Problems Concerning the Relation between Self-Statements and Actual Performance
- Chapter 29. Metacognitive Variables in the Learning of Written Text
- PART 6: GOAL PERSPECTIVES
- Chapter 30. The Role of Problem Orientations and Goals in Text Comprehension and Recall
- Chapter 31. Changing the Reader's Perspective
- Chapter 32. Influences of Titles on the Recall of Instructional Texts
- Chapter 33. The Impact of Prior Knowledge on Accessibility and Availability of Information from Prose
- PART 7: INSTRUCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS
- Chapter 34. Pictures as Prose-Learning Devices
- Chapter 35. Instructional Variables in Text Processing
- Chapter 36. Concrete Analogies as Aids in Learning from Text
- Chapter 37. Subjective versus Objective Pre-Information as a Determinant of Students' Choices of Instructional Texts and their Subsequent Learning Therefrom
- Chapter 38. Effects of Elaboration on Recall of Texts
- Chapter 39. Argument in Text and Reading Process
- Chapter 40. Self-Regulated versus Teacher-Provided Sequencing of Information in Learning from Text
- Chapter 41. Text Processing: A Comparison of Reading and Listening
- Chapter 42. The Influence of Within- and Between-Sentence Variables on the Comprehension of Newspaper Articles by Two Reader Groups
- Chapter 43. Development and Evaluation of a Text Mapping Strategy
- Chapter 44. Quest for an "A": A Case Study of a University Student's Text Processing
- PART 8: EXTENSIONS
- Chapter 45. Processing Dream Texts
- Chapter 46. Comprehending the Discourse of Poetry
- ABSTRACTS OF THE REMAINING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TEXT PROCESSING IN FRIBOURG 1981
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
- ADDRESSES OF CONTRIBUTORS
