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Thematics: Interdisciplinary StudiesEdited by Max M. Louwerse and Willie van Peer
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 3] 2002
► pp. v–viii
Edited by Max M. Louwerse and Willie van Peer
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 3] 2002
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
Prefaceix
Introduction
Part I. Structure and processing
Section 1. Theoretical approaches
1. Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension
2. Situation models and themes
3. Conditions of updating during reading
Section 2. Experimental and corpus linguistic approaches
4. Evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points
5. Responding to style: Cohesion, foregrounding and thematic interpretation
6. The definite article the as a cue to map thematic information
7. Thematic management in Korean
Section 3. Computational approaches
8. On the notions of theme and topic in psychological process models of text comprehension
9. Themes and hierarchical structure of written texts
10. Computational retrieval of themes
Part II. Contents and contexts
Section 1. Theoretical approaches
11. Thematics today
12. Seven trends in recent thematics and a case study
13. Where do literary themes come from?
14. Motives and motifs in visual thematics
Section 2. Interpretive approaches
15. Masking one’s themes: Irony and the politics of indirectness
16. Themes of nation
17. Tracking a theme: War in contemporary German literature
18. Why themes matter: Literary knowledge and the thematic example of money
Section 3. Computational approaches
19. Moving targets: The making and molding of a theme
20. Quantitative hermeneutics: Inferring the meaning of narratives from trends in their content
21. Prototype effect vs. rarity effect in literary style
22. Parsing for the theme: A computer based approach
Name index
Subject index
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