Thematics : interdisciplinary studies /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002.
Description:x, 448 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Converging evidence in language and communication research, 1566-7774 ; v. 3
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4696832
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Other authors / contributors:Louwerse, Max.
Peer, Willie van.
ISBN:1588111075 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. Part I. Structure and processing
  • 4. Section 1. Theoretical approaches
  • 5. 1. Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension
  • 6. 2. Situation models and themes
  • 7. 3. Conditions of updating during reading
  • 8. Section 2. Experimental and corpus linguistic approaches
  • 9. 4. Evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points
  • 10. 5. Responding to style
  • 11. 6. The definite article the as a cue to map thematic information
  • 12. 7. Thematic management in Korean
  • 13. Section 3. Computational approaches
  • 14. 8. On the notions of theme and topic in psychological process models of text comprehension
  • 15. 9. Themes and hierarchical structure of written texts
  • 16. 10. Computational retrieval of themes
  • 17. Part II. Contents and contexts
  • 18. Section 1. Theoretical approaches
  • 19. 11. Thematics today
  • 20. 12. Seven trends in recent thematics and a case study
  • 21. 13. Where do literary themes come from?
  • 22. 14. Motives and motifs in visual thematics
  • 23. Section 2. Interpretive approaches
  • 24. 15. Masking one's themes
  • 25. 16. Themes of nation
  • 26. 17. Tracking a theme
  • 27. 18. Why themes matter
  • 28. Section 3. Computational approaches
  • 29. 19. Moving targets
  • 30. 20. Quantitative hermeneutics
  • 31. 21. Prototype effect vs. rarity effect in literary style
  • 32. 22. Parsing for the theme
  • 33. Name index
  • 34. Subject index