24.1404, Books: Small words, big effects?: Canestrelli

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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:09:25
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Small words, big effects?: Canestrelli

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Title: Small words, big effects? 
Subtitle: Subjective versus objective causal connectives in discourse processing 
Series Title: LOT dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Anneloes Canestrelli

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460931055 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 20.70 Comment: only available through internet

Abstract:

Coherence relations and their linguistic markers play a significant role in
the study of discourse processing and comprehension. A number of studies have
shown that the presence of coherence markers, such as connectives, in a text
facilitates discourse processing and representation. The current study focuses
on causal connectives, and investigates how the information that is encoded in
their processing instructions affects online discourse processing. More
specifically, it investigates whether these connectives provide cues about the
fine-grained distinction between subjective and objective causal relations.
This question is relevant for two reasons. First, in many languages of the
world causal connectives seem to specialize in either subjective or objective
causal relations. And second, subjective causal relations are assumed to be
more complex than objective causal relations. In order to investigate this
issue, this study includes a series of eye-tracking experiments involving both
backward (want versus omdat) and forward (dus versus daarom) Dutch causal
connectives. The results reveal that causal connectives do more than just
inform the reader that a causal coherence relation needs to be constructed
between two pieces of text. They also provide information about the relative
degree of subjectivity of that causal relation, which immediately affects
online discourse processing. In addition, the results shed a new light on the
source of the processing complexity of subjective causal relations.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Written In: English  (eng)

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