Co-operating with Written Texts: The Pragmatics and Comprehension of Written Texts (Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

This work includes international secondary literature on anti-Semitism published throughout the world, from the earliest times to the present. It lists books, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections from a diverse range of disciplines. Written accounts are included among the recorded titles, as are manifestations of anti-Semitism in the visual arts (e.g. painting, caricatures or film), action taken against Jews and Judaism by discriminating judiciaries, pogroms, massacres and the systematic extermination during the Nazi period. The bibliography also covers works dealing with philo-Semitism or Jewish reactions to anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hate. An informative abstract in English is provided for each entry, and Hebrew titles are provided with English translations. Cooperating with written texts: Towards a science of the text. Issues and overview Part I Writing, literacy, and comprehension: psycholinguistic aspects On the relationship between writing system, written language, and text processing Pause and intonation contours in written and oral discourse Aspects of writing development in argumentative texts Psycholinguistic processes in the comprehension of written texts Coherence and coordination in written text: Reading time studies Levels of language comprehension and systems of information-processing Part II Developmental aspects: the evolution of written texts The pragmatics of medieval texts The impact of sudden literacy on text comprehensibility: Mohawk Scientific texts and deictic structures Immediacy and displacement in consciousness and language Part III Literary texts: inferring meaning(s) Fictional conversation and its pragmatic status Presupposition and pragmatic inference in a literary text How to cope with dramatic texts including avant-garde playscripts The pragmatics of literary texts “Deep structure signals” in fiction The pragmatics of poetic discourse A pragmatic role for inserted clauses in literary texts Part IV Pragmatics and comprehension of individual text types Teaching conscientious resistance to cooperation with text: The role of pragmatics in critical thinking From private writing to public oration: The case of Puritan wills. Cognitive discourse analysis applied to the study of genre change Parallelism in advertising copy Notice is hereby given to hide ulterior motives Renarration: Oral L1 and L2 narrations as bases of written narratives Strategies in text production and text comprehension: A new perspective The axiological structure of discourse Part V At the interface of linguistics and pragmatics: individual linguistic structures On the (In)dependence of syntax and pragmatics: Evidence from the postposition -rá in Persian VP inversion and aspect in written texts Scope in discourse: Pragmatics or syntax? Part VI Computational modeling of text comprehension ‘Parsing’ procedures for stories Convergent evidence for a set of coherence relations Text pragmatics and computational modeling Integrating knowledge sources for the generation of referential expressions Subject index This volume contains the body, and a few more, of the papers from the conference on "Cooperating with written texts: the pragmatics and comprehension of written texts", held at Rauischholzhausen castle, the conference site of Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, West Germany, September 5-9, 1989.