Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse
How to create it and how to describe it
Selected papers from the International Workshop on Coherence, Augsburg, 24-27 April 1997
Editors
Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a ‘rather mystical notion’. However, taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in orientation, this volume aims at helping relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. The general bibliography which concludes the book bears witness to this intriguing development and the rapidly changing scene in coherence research. Preceding this comprehensive up-to-date Bibliography on Coherence are 13 selected papers from the 1997 International Workshop on Coherence at the University of Augsburg, Germany. They share a number of theoretical and methodoligical assumptions and reflect a trend in text and discourse analysis to move away from reducing coherence to a product of (formally represented) cohesion and/or (semantically established) connectivity. Instead, they start from a user- and context-oriented interpretive understanding and rely on authentic data throughout in relating micro-linguistic to macro-linguistic issues. The first group of papers looks at the (re-)creation of coherence in, inter alia, reported speech, casual conversation, argumentative writing, news reports and conference contributions. The second group describes the negotation of coherence in oral examinations, text summaries and other situations that require special efforts on the part of the recipient to overcome misunderstandings and other disturbances. The third group discusses theoretical approaches to the description of coherence.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 63] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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About the Authors | p. xi
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Introduction: Views of CoherenceWolfram Bublitz | p. 1
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Part I: How to (Re-)Create Coherence: Means of Coherence
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Coherent Voicing: On Prosody in Conversational Reported SpeechElizabeth Couper-Kuhlen | p. 11
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It Takes Two to Cohere: The Collaborative Dimension of Topical Coherence in ConversationRonald Geluykens | p. 35
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Learning to Cohere: Causal Links in Native vs. Non-Native Argumentative WritingGunter Lorenz | p. 55
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Coherence through Understanding through Discourse Patterns: Focus on News ReportsJan-Ola Östman | p. 77
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Semiotic Spanning at Conferences: Cohesion and Coherence in and across Conference Papers and their DiscussionsEija Ventola | p. 101
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Coherent Keying in Conversational Humour: Contextualising Joint FictionalisationHelga Kotthoff | p. 125
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Part II: How to Negotiate Coherence: Degrees of Coherence
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Disturbed Coherence: ‘Fill me in’Wolfram Bublitz and Uta Lenk | p. 153
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Coherence and Misunderstanding in Everyday ConversationsCarla Bazzanella and Rossana Damiano | p. 175
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The Effect of Context in the Definition and Negotiation of CoherenceAnna Ciliberti | p. 189
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Coherence in Summary: The Contexts of Appropriate DiscourseBarbara Seidlhofer and Henry G. Widdowson | p. 205
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Coherence in HypertextGerd Fritz | p. 221
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Part III: How to describe Coherence: Views of Coherence
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Communicative Intentions and Coherence RelationsTed J.M. Sanders and Wilbert Spooren | p. 235
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If Coherence Is Achieved, Then Where Doth Meaning Lie?Willis J. Edmondson | p. 251
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A Bibliography of Coherence and CohesionUta Lenk, Sarah Gietl and Wolfram Bublitz | p. 267
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Index | p. 297
“Overall, this volume succeeds in demystifying coherence and establishing its relationship to the larger theme of this series.”
Daniel O. Jackson, Orbin University
“[...] this is an interesting collection of papers which proposes a dynamic approach to the study of coherence, a topic which has been relatively neglected (compare cohesion which has long been accepted as a useful category for analysis), and which, because of the breadth of its scope, will appeal to discourse analysts, conversation analysts and text linguists alike.”
Yvonne McLaren, Heriot-Watt University
“To this reader, which brings together articles bij authors at the forefront of this research effort, opens new avenues of future research on coherence. Recommended reading for anyone interested in discourse analysis, pragmatics, and language use in general.”
Chaoqun Xie, Fujian Teachers' College, in Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Vol 47 (3/4)
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