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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 19:34:40
From: Karijn Hootsen [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Making sense of discourse: Hoek

 


Title: Making sense of discourse 
Subtitle: On discourse segmentation and the linguistic marking of coherence relations 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/making-sense-of-discourse-on-discourse-segmentation-and-the-linguistic-marking-of-coherence-relations 


Author: Jet Hoek

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932946 Pages: 251 Price: Europe EURO 33.00


Abstract:

When people read or listen to a discourse, they will try to make sense of it.
To fully understand a discourse, it is essential not only to know the meaning
of each individual clause, but also to figure out how all clauses are related
to each other. If all goes well, language users end up with an accurate
representation of the discourse. An important aspect of building a mental
representation of a discourse is inferring coherence relations between
discourse segments. When inferring coherence relations, language users have to
deduce whether two or more chunks of text constitute, for instance, a
cause-consequence relation, a rule and an exception, alternatives, etc.
Coherence relations can be explicitly marked by a connective (e.g., because,
although) or a cue phrase (e.g., except for the fact that, by comparison), but
this need not be the case; in many instances, coherence relations have to be
established without the instructions connectives provide or, in the case of
underspecified connectives, with only limited instructions.
 
This dissertation investigates both discourse segmentation and the linguistic
marking of coherence relations. Using a combination of theoretical
exploration, parallel corpus studies, and experimental methods, it provides
new insights into how and why coherence relations are explicitly signaled and
between which parts of a text people infer coherence relations. In addition,
it contributes toward refining discourse segmentation and annotation
guidelines, both of which are important methodological tools in the research
of discourse coherence.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis


Written In: English  (eng)

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