CONTENTS
Demonstration texts = viii
Acknowledgements = xi
O : Foreword = xiii
Ⅰ Basic notions = 1
Textuality
The seven standards of textuality : cohesion : coherence : intentionality : acceptability : informativity : situationality : intertextuality
Constitutive versus regulative principles : efficiency : effectiveness : appropriateness
Notes = 12
Ⅱ The evolution of text linguistics = 14
Historical background of text linguistics : rhetoric : stylistics : literary studies : anthropology : tagmemics : sociology : discourse analysis : functional sentence perspective
Descriptive structural linguistics : system levels : Harris''''s discourse analysis : Coseriu''''s work on settings : Harweg''''s model of substitution : the text as a unit above the sentence
Transformational grammar : proposals of Heidolph and Isenberg : the Konstanz project : Petofi''''s text-structure／world-structure theory : van Dijk''''s text grammars : Mel?uk''''s text-meaning model : the evolving notion of transformation
Notes = 29
Ⅲ The procedural approach = 31
Pragmatics
Systems and systemization
Description and explanation
Modularity and interaction
Combinatorial explosion
Text as a procedural entity
Processing ease and processing depth
Thresholds of termination
Virtual and actual systems
Cybernetic regulation
Continuity
Stability
Problem solving : depth-first search, breadth-first search, and means-end analysis
Mapping
Procedural attachment
Pattern-matching
Phases of text production : planning : ideation : development : expression : parsing : linearization and adjacency
The phases of text reception : parsing : concept recovery : idea recovery : plan recovery
Reversibility of production and reception
Sources for procedural models : artificial intelligence : cognitive psychology : operation types
Notes = 45
Ⅳ Cohesion = 48
The function of syntax
The surface text in active storage
Closely-knit patterns : phrase, clause, and sentence
Augmented transition networks
Grammatical dependencies
Rules as procedures
Micro-states and macro-states
Hold stack
Re-using patterns : recurrence : partial recurrence : parallelism : paraphrase
Compacting patterns : pro-forms : anaphora and cataphora : ellipsis : trade-off between compactness and clarity
Signalling relations : tense and aspect : updating : junction : conjunction, disjunction, contrajunction, and subordination : modality
Functional sentence perspective
Intonation
Notes = 81
Ⅴ Coherence = 84
Meaning versus sense
Non-determinacy, ambiguity, and polyvalence
Continuity of senses
Textual worlds
Concepts and relations
Strength of linkage : determinate, typical, and accidental knowledge
Decomposition
Procedural semantics
Activation
Chunks and global patterns
Spreading activation
Episodic and semantic memory
Economy
Frames, schemas, plans, and scripts
Inheritance
Primary and secondary concepts
Operators
Building a text-world model
Inferencing
The world-knowledge correlate
Reference
Notes = 110
Ⅵ Intentionality and acceptability = 113
Intentionality
Reduced cohesion
Reduced coherence
The notion of intention across the disciplines
Speech act theory
Performatives
Grice''''s conversational maxims : co-operation, quantity, quality, relation, and manner
The notions of action and discourse action
Plans and goals
Scripts
Interactive planning
Monitoring and mediation
Acceptability
Judging sentences
Relationships between acceptability and grammaticality
Acceptance of plans and goals
Notes = 137
Ⅶ Informativity = 139
Attention
Information theory
The Markov chain
Statistical versus contextual probability
Three orders of informativity
Triviality, defaults, and preferences
Upgrading and downgrading
Discontinuities and discrepancies
Motivation search
Directionality
Strength of linkage
Removal and restoration of stability
Classifying expectations : the real world : facts and beliefs : normal ordering strategies : the organization of language : surface formatting : text types : immediate context
Negation
Definiteness
A newspaper article and a sonnet
Expectations on multiple levels
Motivations of non-expectedness
Notes = 161
Ⅷ Situationality = 163
Situation models
Mediation and evidence
Monitoring versus managing
Dominances
Noticing
Normal ordering strategies
Frequency
Salience
Negotiation
Exophora
Managing
Plans and scripts
Planboxes and planbox escalation
A trade-off between efficiency and effectiveness
Strategies for monitoring and managing a situation
Notes = 180
Ⅸ Intertextuality = 182
Text types versus linguistic typology
Functional definitions : descriptive, narrative, and argumentative texts : literary and poetic texts : scientific and didactic texts
Using and referring to well-known texts
The organization of conversation
Problems and variables
Monitoring and managing
Reichman''''s coherence relations
Discourse-world models
Recalling textual content
Effects of the schema
Trace abstraction, construction, and reconstruction
Inferencing and spreading activation
Mental imagery and scenes
Interactions between text-presented knowledge and stored world-knowledge
Textuality in recall experiments
Notes = 206
Ⅹ Research and schooling = 209
Cognitive science : the skills of rational human behaviour : language and cognition
Defining intelligence
Texts as vehicles of science
Sociology
Anthropology
Psychiatry and consulting psychology
Reading and readability
Writing
Literary studies : de-automatization : deviation : generative poetics : literary criticism as downgrading
Translation studies : literal and free translating : equivalence of experience : literary translating
Contrastive linguistics
Foreign-language teaching
Semiotics
Computer science and artificial intelligence
Understanding understanding
Notes = 221
Table of abbreviations for references = 223
References = 225
Index of names = 255
Index of important terms = 262
