The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence
Theories and applications
Editors
Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the realization and signalling of coherence relations in various genres and languages, their acquisition and use by first- and second-language learners and university students, the relationship between coherence relations and genre-specific discourse structure, and extensions of the coherence paradigm to multimodal discourse and visual art. This collection will be of interest to researchers from linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication, and multimodal semiotics.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 254] 2014. vii, 295 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. vii
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Introduction: The pragmatics of discourse coherenceGisela Redeker and Helmut Gruber | pp. 1–20
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Coherence and genre
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Explicit and implicit coherence relations in Dutch textsNynke van der Vliet and Gisela Redeker | pp. 23–52
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Contrastive relations, evaluation, and generic structure in science newsJaromír Haupt | pp. 53–83
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The signalling of coherence relations
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The coding of discourse relations in English and German argumentative discourseAugustin Speyer and Anita Fetzer | pp. 87–119
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Resolving connective ambiguity: a prerequisite for discourse parsingManfred Stede | pp. 121–141
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Coherence in multimodal discourse
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Multimodal coherence research and its applicationsJohn A. Bateman | pp. 145–177
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Coherence in multimodal arts installationsBirgit Huemer | pp. 179–206
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Developmental and educational perspectives
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“Why? Because I’m talking to you!” Parental input and cognitive complexity as determinants of children’s connective acquisitionRosie van Veen, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Ted J.M. Sanders and Huub van den Bergh | pp. 209–242
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(Non-)signalling of coherence structures in English learner writingBarbara Schiftner | pp. 243–266
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Signalling coherence in Austrian students‘ seminar papers: macro- and micro-structural cuesHelmut Gruber | pp. 267–291
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Index | pp. 293–295
“This well-organized volume has both theoretical significance and application value. It presents a multifaceted picture of the pragmatics of discourse coherence through the nine chapters from various disciplines, which address coherence relations, discourse structure, cohesion, genre and multimodality from different theoretical angles, but which are also neatly fitted together like a completed jigsaw puzzle.”
Chengjiao Sun, Zhejiang University, in Discourse Studies Vol. 18.4 (2016)
“Among the many strengths of the volume are the specific attention devoted to multimodality, traditionally disregarded in linguistic works on coherence, the significant effort in integrating Rhetorical Structure Theory with theories and tools drawn from other approaches, as well as the contributors’ modelling of analytical frames, which lend themselves to be applied to further work. [...] I believe the volume constitutes an extremely useful and rich contribution on discourse coherence.”
Elisabetta Adami, University of Leeds, in Journal of Pragmatics, Vol 103 (2016)
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General