Full Description
Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the realization and signalling of coherence relations in various genres and languages, their acquisition and use by first- and second-language learners and university students, the relationship between coherence relations and genre-specific discourse structure, and extensions of the coherence paradigm to multimodal discourse and visual art. This collection will be of interest to researchers from linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication, and multimodal semiotics.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: The pragmatics of discourse coherence (by Redeker, Gisela); 3. Coherence and genre; 4. Explicit and implicit coherence relations in Dutch texts (by Vliet, Nynke van der); 5. Contrastive relations, evaluation, and generic structure in science news (by Haupt, Jaromir); 6. The signalling of coherence relations; 7. The coding of discourse relations in English and German argumentative discourse (by Speyer, Augustin); 8. Resolving connective ambiguity: a prerequisite for discourse parsing (by Stede, Manfred); 9. Coherence in multimodal discourse; 10. Multimodal coherence research and its applications (by Bateman, John A.); 11. Coherence in multimodal arts installations (by Huemer, Birgit); 12. Developmental and educational perspectives; 13. "Why? Because I'm talking to you!" Parental input and cognitive complexity as determinants of children's connective acquisition (by Veen, Rosie van); 14. (Non-)signalling of coherence structures in English learner writing (by Schiftner, Barbara); 15. Signalling coherence in Austrian students' seminar papers: macro- and micro-structural cues (by Gruber, Helmut); 16. Index
