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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
Contents: J. Costermans, M. Fayol, Introduction. Part I:Processing Interclausal Relationships: A Many-Sided Topic.M. Gernsbacher, Cohesion Cues Mapping During Comprehension. L.R. Shapiro, J.A. Hudson, Coherence and Cohesion in Children's Stories. Part II:On Connectives.J. Caron, Towards a Procedural Approach of the Meaning of Connectives. L. Noordman, W. Vonk, The Different Functions of a Conjunction in Constructing a Representation of the Discourse. E.M. Segal, J.F. Duchan, Interclausal Connectives as Indicators of Structuring in Narrative. S.R. Braunwald, The Development of Because and So: Connecting Language, Thought, and Social Understanding. A. McCabe, C. Petersen, Meaningful Mistakes: The Systematicity of Children's Connectives in Narrative Discourse and the Social Origins of This Usage About the Past. Part III:From Segmenting To Relating.M. Fayol, On Acquiring and Using Punctuation. A Study of Written French. L. Heurley, Processing Units in Written Texts: Paragraphs or Information Blocks? Y. Bestgen, J. Costermans, Temporal Markers of Narrative Structure: Studies in Production. Part IV:Beyond the Cohesion/Segmentation Dichotomy.M. Hickmann, Information Status and Grounding in Children's Narratives: A Crosslinguistic Perspective. B. Schneuwly, Textual Organizers and Text Types: Ontogenetic Aspects in Writing. D.J. Townsend, Processing Clauses and Their Relationships During Comprehension.
About the author
Jean Costermans, Michel Fayol
Summary
This volume presents contributions from researchers interested specifically in adult language and from others concerned with developmental aspects of language. Some contributors deal primarily with production, whereas others concentrate on comprehension.
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"All in all, the book is a welcome addition to the analysis of discourse."—Studies in Second Language"The timing of this book could not be better, as there is a growing amount of research interest in linguistics and psycholinguists within the area of discourse and written texts in both the US and Europe. The ideas, methods, and results of the research contained in these chapters seek to answer many questions regarding interclause relationships, both old and new, and to motivate research in new areas."—The Phonetician
