Mental Models as Representations of Discourse and Text
Author : Alan Garnham
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Discourse Representation and Text Processing
Author : Garnham Oakhill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 1993-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780863773327
Book Description
The interrelated topics of discourse representation and text processing between them comprise a substantial part of comtemporary psycholinguistics, not to mention the related disciplines in which they are studied. The papers that follow are by no means intended to give an overview of this cast research field. Rather, they present some of the most recent research on selected problems within it. Our own prediction is to study discourse representation and text processing from the perspective of mental models theory (Garnham, 1987; Johnson-Laird, 1983). The mental models theory.
Mental Models as Representations of Discourse and Text
Author : Alan Garnham
Publisher :
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 9780745802091
Book Description
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse
Author : Hart Christopher Hart
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1474450016
Book Description
Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres. The book presents new insights into the workings of textual phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis and also sheds light on more elusive, epiphenomenal qualities such as a text's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness. It also takes new strides in cognitive text analysis by exploiting experimental and ethnographic methods to empirically investigate readers' reception of, and resistance to, texts.
Text Representation
Author : Ted Sanders
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2001-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027297673
Book Description
This book brings together linguistics and psycholinguistics. Text representation is considered a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role in both text production and text understanding. The focus is on referential and relational coherence and the role of linguistic characteristics as processing instructions from a text linguistic and discourse psychology point of view. Consequently, this book presents various research methodologies: linguistic analysis, text analysis, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, argumentation analysis, and the experimental psycholinguistic study of text processing. The authors compare, test, and evaluate linguistic and processing theories of text representation. A state of the art volume in an emerging field of interest, located at the very heart of our communicative behavior: the study of text and text representation.
Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Reasoning
Author : G. Rickheit
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 1999-10-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080536220
Book Description
In this interdisciplinary discussion on mental models, researchers from various areas in cognitive science tackle the following questions: What is a mental model? What are the prospects and limitations in applying the mental model notion in cognitive science? How can the ideas on the nature of mental models and their mode of operation be empirically substantiated? The primary goal of the research group was to work out a definition of mental models that embraces the overall use of this construct in cognitive science as well as the more specific conceptions used in particular research domains such as cognitive linguistics. Theoretical claims about the properties of mental models were discussed and their tenability evaluated against the empirical evidence.The volume is divided into three parts. Fundamental aspects of mental models are presented in the first section, the following part contains contributions to the function of mental models in discourse processing, and finally problems of mental models in reasoning and problem solving are outlined.
Mental Models In Cognitive Science
Author : Alan Garnham
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1134835663
Book Description
Phil Johnson-Laird's theory of mental models has proved to be an influential development in the cognitive sciences. This theory aims to provide a detailed account of both reasoning and inference on the one hand, and language on the other. It can therefore be regarded as a step toward the much-sought-after unified theory of cognition.; This book provides an overview of mental models research. Some of the contributors were collaborators or former graduate students of Johnson-Laird, and between them they cover the main strands of mental models theory. After an appreciation of Johnson-Laird, the book covers topics including language Processing, Reasoning, Inference, The Role Of Emotions, And The Impact Of mental illnesses on thought processes.
Mental Models
Author : Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674568822
Book Description
This book offers a unified theory of the major propertries of mind, including comprehension, inference, and consciousness. The author argues that we apprehend the world by building inner mental replicas of the relationships among objects and events that concern us. The mind is essentially a model-building device that can itself be modeled on a computer. The book provides a blueprint for building such a model and numberous important illustrations of how to do it.
Discourse Comprehension
Author : Charles A. Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Comprehension
ISBN : 0805815341
Book Description
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Construction of Mental Representations During Reading
Author : Herre van Oostendorp
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 1998-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135688397
Book Description
This volume presents in-depth investigations of the processes of meaning-making during reading at both local (discourse) and global (general knowledge) levels. It considerably extends our knowledge of how mental representations are constructed and updated during reading. The book also provides insight into the process of representation construction by using online measures and relating this process with final memory representations; provides detailed models of these processes; pays attention to the coordination of multiple representations constructed; focuses on the monitoring and updating of mental representations; and applies all this knowledge to richer and more complicated texts than are often used in laboratories.
