Thematics: Interdisciplinary studies
by Louwerse, Max Van Peer, Willie
Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of "themes" in texts and how they are structured in language use. Much of the literature on Thematics is scattered over different disciplines (literature, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science), which this detailed collection pulls together in one …
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Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of "themes" in texts and how they are structured in language use. Much of the literature on Thematics is scattered over different disciplines (literature, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science), which this detailed collection pulls together in one coherent overview. The result is a new landmark for the study and understanding of themes in their everyday manifestation.
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- Publication Date:2002
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- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002
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- Description:448 s
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:902723888X, 9789027238887
- oclc:ocn472179398
Table of Contents
Part 1 Structure and processing: theoretical approaches -psychological and computational research on theme comprehension, Arthur C. Graesser et al, situation models and themes, Rolf A. Zwaan et al, conditions of updating during reading, Herre van Oostendorp et al; experimental and corpus linguistic approaches -evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points, Yeshayahu Shen, responding to style -- cohesion, foregrounding and thematic interpretation, Catherine Emmott, the definite article as cue to map thematic information, Morton Ann Gernsbacher and Rachel Robertson, thematic management in Korean narrative, Myung-Hee Kim; computational approaches -- on the notions of theme and topic in psychological process models of text comprehension, Walter Kintsch, themes and hierarchical structure of written texts, Elisabeth Le, computational retrieval of themes, Max Louwerse. Part 2 Content and context: theoretical approaches -- thematics today, Werner Sollors, seven trends in recent thematics -- a survey of theories, Bo Pettersson, where do literary themes come from?, Willie van Peer, motives and motifs in visual thematics, George Roque; interpretive approaches -- masking one…
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