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Publication details [#20169]
Velde, Roger G. Van de. 1989. Man, verbal text, inferencing and coherence. In Heydrich, Wolfgang, Fritz Neubauer, Janos S. Petöfi and Emel Sözer, eds. Connexity and coherence: Analysis of text and discourse. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 174–217.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
V. discusses aspects of text processing in relation to inferencing. Written verbal texts are seen as records of manifold information parts, whose understanding is subject to organization. On the basis of inferencing, V. distinguishes 3 main types of organizing most characteristic of realized verbal texts: (a) cohesion, (b) referential connectedness, and (c) coherence. The arguments are illustrated with fragments from a short story by W.G. Hardy: `The Czech dog'.