Developmental Spans in Event Comprehension and Representation

Bridging Fictional and Actual Events

Edited by Paul van den Broek, Patricia J. Bauer, Tammy Bourg

This book is about building metaphorical bridges--all sorts of bridges. At the most basic level, it concerns the bridges that individuals build to understand the...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-1769-0 (Routledge)

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Puerto Rican Discourse

A Sociolinguistic Study of A New York Suburb

By Lourdes M. Torres

Before conclusions about Spanish in the United States can be drawn, individual communities must be studied in their own contexts. That is the goal of...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-1931-1 (Routledge)

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Pretend Play As Improvisation

Conversation in the Preschool Classroom

By R. Keith Sawyer

Everyday conversations including gossip, boasting, flirting, teasing, and informative discussions are highly creative, improvised interactions. Children's play is also an important, often improvisational activity. One...

1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-2119-2 (Psychology Press)

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Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

By Georgia M. Green

This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions....

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2166-6 (Routledge)

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Constituting Gender Through Talk in Childhood

Conversations in Parent-child, Peer, and Sibling Relationships:a Special Issue of research on Language and Social interaction

Edited by Amy Sheldon

This issue explores some of the ways in which gender, as a social construction, might be rooted in and contingent on conversational processes in childhood....

1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-9927-6 (Psychology Press)

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Texts and Practices

Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis

By Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard

Text and Practices provides an essential introduction to the theory and practice of Critical Discourse Analysis. Using insights from this challenging new method of linguiistic...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-12143-9 (Routledge)

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Text and Discourse Analysis

By Raphael Salkie

A practical, `user-friendly' guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. Text and Discourse Analysis:

* examines a wide variety of authentic...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-09278-4 (Routledge)

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Text-based Learning and Reasoning

Studies in History

By Charles A. Perfetti, M. Anne Britt, Mara C. Georgi

History is both an academic discipline and a school subject. As a discipline, it fosters a systematic way of discovering and evaluating the events of...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-1977-9 (Routledge)

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Deixis in Narrative

A Cognitive Science Perspective

Edited by Judith F. Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, Lynne E. Hewitt

This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop a computational model for narrative understanding....

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-1463-7 (Routledge)

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Discourse Comprehension

Essays in Honor of Walter Kintsch

Edited by III, Charles A. Weaver, Suzanne Mannes, C. Randy Fletcher

This volume is derived from presentations given at a conference hosted in Boulder, Colorado in honor of the 60th birthday of Walter Kintsch. Though the...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-1535-1 (Routledge)

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