Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing
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This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is characteristic of discourse expression (termed ‘cohesion’). On the other hand, it makes clear which human reasoning processes are involved in the construction of the different levels of organization which are characteristic of text content (termed ‘coherence’). Much attention is devoted to the hierarchical relationships between cohesion and coherence. In line with these hierarchizing endeavors, this book also addresses the related problem of whether the reasoning processes involved in reading verbal texts are ranked in order of importance. This book lends much weight to the empirical control of its claims. It does not only consider the language processing activities of normals, but it also devotes a great deal of attention to the disordered language reception activities of schizophrenics and aphasics.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:2] 1984. vii, 100 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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0. Introduction | p. 1
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1. On Syntactic Processing | p. 5
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1.1. Introduction
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1.2. Cohesion as syntactic organization
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1.3. Cohesion as a conspicuous companion
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1.4. On the limited role of cohesion
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1.5. Coherence as semantic organization
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1.6. Coherence as a dominating companion
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1.7. Cohesion as a deficient companion
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1.8. Cohesion as a misleading companion
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1.9. On inferential discourse processing and rational argumentation
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1.10. Summary
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2. On Semantic Processing | p. 27
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2.1. Introduction
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2.2. On ILRRR information
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2.3. On ILRRR inferences repairing defective cohesion
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2.4. On ILRRR inferences impeding cohesion
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2.5. On the indispensable role of ILRRR inferences
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2.6. On initial KUIP conditions
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2.7. On semantic-logical inferences
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2.8. On the rational underpinning of discourse processing
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2.9. On the indispensability of coherence
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2.10. Summary
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3. On Action Processing | p. 47
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3.1. Introduction
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3.2. On action and communication
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3.3. On cotextual information about actions
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3.4. On contextual information about actions
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3.5. On the hypothetical reconstruction of action co(n)texts
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3.6. On multileveled action processing
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3.7. Summary
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4. On Disordered Processing | p. 65
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4.1. Introduction
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4.2. On disordered syntactic processing
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4.3. On disordered semantic processing
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4.4. On disordered action processing
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4.5. Summary
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5. Conclusion | p. 79
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General