Coherence in Spontaneous Text
Editors
The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic representation as the speech producer had in mind. In producing and comprehending a text, be it spoken or written, the interlocutors collaborate towards coherence. They negotiate for a common ground of shared topicality, reference and thematic structure – thus toward a similar mental representation of the text. In conversation, the negotiation takes place between the present participants. In writing or oral narrative, the negotiation takes place in the mind of the text producer, between the text producer and his/her mental representation of the mind of the absent or inactive interlocutor. The cognitive mechanisms that underlie face-to-face communication thus continue to shape text production and comprehension in non-interactive contexts.Most of the papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Coherence in Spontaneous Text, held at the University of Oregon in the spring of 1992.
[Typological Studies in Language, 31] 1995. x, 267 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Introduction: Coherence as a mental entityMorton Ann Gernsbacher and T. Givón
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Negotiating coherence in dialogueAnne H. Anderson | p. 1
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The negotiation of coherence in face-to-face interaction. Some examples from the extreme boundsJennifer Coates | p. 41
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Coherence in text vs. coherence in mindT. Givón | p. 59
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The negotiation of coherence within conversationCharles Goodwin | p. 117
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How readers construct situation models for stories. The role of suntactic cues and causal inferencesWalter Kintsch | p. 139
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Aspects of coherence in written language: a psychological perspectiveAnthony J. Sanford and Linda M. Moxey | p. 161
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Explanatory coherence in written communicationMatthew Traxler and Morton Ann Gernsbacher | p. 215
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Coherence in collaboration: Some examples from conversationDeanna Wilkes-Gibbs | p. 239
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