18.1767, Books: Psycholing/Discourse Analysis/Text&Corpus Ling: Kamalski

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Date: 05-Jun-2007
From: Rianne Giethoorn < lot at let.uu.nl >
Subject: Coherence Marking, Comprehension and Persuasion: Kamalski

 

	
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:40:14
From: Rianne Giethoorn < lot at let.uu.nl >
Subject: Coherence Marking, Comprehension and Persuasion: Kamalski 
 



Title: Coherence Marking, Comprehension and Persuasion 
Subtitle: On the processing and representation of discourse 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Judith Kamalski

Paperback: ISBN:  Pages: 227 Price: Europe EURO 22.03


Abstract:

In this dissertation, Judith Kamalski analyzes the role of coherence
marking in discourse. The 1914 advertisement on the front cover states: Buy
it because it's a better car. The relation that exists between the first
segment [buy it] and the second segment [it's a better car] is a
claim-argument relation, in this case explicitly signalled by the coherence
marker because. How does such a coherence marker influence the mental
representation that a reader constructs from a text?

The six experiments in this dissertation show that coherence marking
affects the reader in different ways: coherence marking can influence text
comprehension, appraisal and persuasion. Coherence marking improves text
comprehension for readers who do not have much prior knowledge about the
text topic. For readers who have more prior knowledge about a topic, a more
implicit text leads to optimal comprehension. Also, coherence marking
positively influences readers' opinions about the text and text quality.
Finally, it becomes apparent that to study effects of coherence marking on
persuasion, it is necessary to make a distinction between the marking of
objective relations (relations that exist in external reality, such as
cause-effect) and subjective relations (relations that are constructed by
the speaker or writer, such as the claim-argument relation in the Ford
advertisement). Empirical results show that objective marking can have a
positive effect on persuasion, whereas subjective marking can cause a
so-called forewarning effect: when readers recognize the attempt to
influence them, they build resistance to it. 

The research in this dissertation shows the importance of a subtle text
characteristic such as coherence marking. It combines insights from text
linguistics, discourse processing, and social psychology, and should
therefore be of interest to researchers in any of these domains. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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