Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects: 8 (Human Cognitive Processing) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027223602 ISBN 13: 9789027223609

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2001

Synopsis

This book brings together linguistics and psycholinguistics. Text representation is considered a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role in both text production and text understanding.
The focus is on referential and relational coherence and the role of linguistic characteristics as processing instructions from a text linguistic and discourse psychology point of view. Consequently, this book presents various research methodologies: linguistic analysis, text analysis, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, argumentation analysis, and the experimental psycholinguistic study of text processing. The authors compare, test, and evaluate linguistic and processing theories of text representation.
A state of the art volume in an emerging field of interest, located at the very heart of our communicative behavior: the study of text and text representation.

About this title

Synopsis

The chapters of this volume are all based on papers presented at the International workshop on text representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects, held at Utrecht University. The theme of this title is text representation, or more specifically the linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects thereof. Text representation is a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role in both text production and text understanding. In text production it is the basis for lexical retrieval and for producing and combining the discourse units. In text understanding it is the result of the decoding of the linguistic information in a discourse. This book characterizes a field of study in which the two disciplines, linguistics and psycholinguistics, are growing together.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027223602
• ISBN 13: 9789027223609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 371
• Editor: Sanders Ted J.M., Schilperoord Joost, Spooren Wilbert