Wilbert Spooren

orcid.org/0000-0002-2982-3970

List of John Benjamins publications for which Wilbert Spooren plays a role.

Book series

Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research (CELCR)

Edited by Kris Heylen and Ninke Stukker

ISSN 1566-7774

Journal

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Identifying information and tenor in texts

Edited by Luuk Lagerwerf, Wilbert Spooren and Liesbeth Degand

Special issue of Information Design Journal 13:1 (2005) 96 pp.

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics: Second revised edition

Edited by René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1] 2004. xii, 277 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language

Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects

Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders, Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren

[Human Cognitive Processing, 8] 2001. viii, 363 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1 (1999)] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language

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Xiao, Hongling, Fang Li, Ted J.M. Sanders and Wilbert Spooren 2021 How subjective are Mandarin reason connectives? A corpus study of spontaneous conversation, microblog and newspaper discourse Language and Linguistics 22:1, pp. 167–212 | Article

Studies in several languages find that causal connectives differ from one another in their prototypical meaning and use, which provides insight into language users’ cognitive categorization of causal relations in discourse. Subjectivity plays a vital role in this process. Using an integrated… read more

Hustinx, Lettica and Wilbert Spooren 2019 Chapter 6. Determinants of abstractness and concreteness and their persuasive effects Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication, Bolognesi, Marianna and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 121–144 | Chapter

The writing guideline to avoid abstractness and to use concrete language instead has a long and well-deserved reputation. Nevertheless, it is not clear what constitutes concrete language. In this chapter we report two studies. The first investigates the determinants of concreteness and abstractness… read more

Spooren, Wilbert 2018 Chapter 1. Introduction Visual Metaphor: Structure and process, Steen, Gerard J. (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter

Lamers, Monique and Wilbert Spooren 2012 Tracking referents in discourse Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 1:1, pp. 59–79 | Article

This reading study registered eye movements to investigate the influence of different discourse constructional factors on anaphor resolution in written discourse. More specifically, the study focused on the influence of the possible interplay of proximity between a possible referent and the… read more

Sanders, Ted J.M. and Wilbert Spooren 2009 The cognition of discourse coherence Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 197–212 | Article

Lagerwerf, Luuk, Wilbert Spooren and Liesbeth Degand 2005 Identifying information and tenor in texts: Introduction Identifying information and tenor in texts, Lagerwerf, Luuk, Wilbert Spooren and Liesbeth Degand (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Article

Spooren, Wilbert 2003 The acquisition of reading skills Document Design 4:1, pp. 96–98 | Miscellaneous

Spooren, Wilbert 2003 Review of Schiffrin, Tannen & Hamilton (2001): Document Design 4:2, pp. 189–193 | Review

Spooren, Wilbert 2003 Cause and effect in reading documents: Reserach watch Document Design 4:2, pp. 182–184 | Miscellaneous

Spooren, Wilbert 2003 Research watch: Spoken and written, verbal and nonverbal communication Document Design 4:3, pp. 272–274 | Article

Spooren, Wilbert 2003 Implications of what is said: The difference between what is stated and what is meant Information Design Journal 11:2/3, pp. 261–263 | Subsection

Fortunately, communication is not fully explicit. When people talk and write, they leave things unsaid. Writers assume, and rightly so, that their audience is intelligent enough to infer the intended meaning ‘between the lines’. If I am sitting in a train compartment, smoking a cigarette, and the… read more

Spooren, Wilbert 2002 Communication and argumentation Document Design 3:3, pp. 271–273 | Miscellaneous

Spooren, Wilbert 2002 Uncertainty in communication via text and conversation Document Design 3:2, pp. 174–177 | Miscellaneous

Spooren, Wilbert 2002 Review of Nystrand (2001): Special issue of Written Communication Document Design 3:1, pp. 80–94 | Review

Sanders, Ted J.M. and Wilbert Spooren 2001 Text representation as an interface between language and its users Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects, Sanders, Ted J.M., Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article

Renkema, Jan, Hans Hoeken and Wilbert Spooren 1999 Editorial: New Horizons in document design Document Design 1:1, pp. 1–6 | Miscellaneous

Sanders, Ted J.M. and Wilbert Spooren 1999 Communicative Intentions and Coherence Relations Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it, Bublitz, Wolfram, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola (eds.), pp. 235 ff. | Article

Spooren, Wilbert 1999 Theoretical and applied communication studies Document Design 1:2, pp. 145–148 | Miscellaneous

Spooren, Wilbert 1999 Paradigms for discourse psychology Document Design 1:1, pp. 63–66 | Miscellaneous

Spooren, Wilbert 1999 Communication design Document Design 1:3, pp. 221–224 | Miscellaneous

Sanders, José and Wilbert Spooren 1997 Perspective, Subjectivity, and Modality from a Cognitive Linguistic Point of View Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics, Liebert, Wolf-Andreas, Gisela Redeker and Linda R. Waugh (eds.), pp. 85 ff. | Article