Thematics: Interdisciplinary StudiesMax Louwerse, Willie Van Peer John Benjamins Publishing, 2002 M01 1 - 448 pages Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of 'themes' in texts and how they are structured in language use.Much of the literature on Thematics is scattered over different disciplines (literature, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science), which this detailed collection pulls together in one coherent overview. The result is a new landmark for the study and understanding of themes in their everyday manifestation. |
Contents
Theoretical approaches | 19 |
Situation models and themes | 35 |
Conditions of updating during reading | 55 |
Experimental and corpus linguistic approaches | 77 |
cohesion foregrounding and thematic | 91 |
The definite article as cue to map thematic information | 119 |
Thematic management in Korean narrative | 137 |
Computational approaches | 157 |
Seven trends in recent thematics and a case study | 237 |
Where do literary themes come from? | 253 |
Interpretive approaches | 283 |
Themes of nation | 301 |
The theme of war in contemporary German prose fiction | 321 |
Literary knowledge | 341 |
Inferring the meaning of narratives | 377 |
Prototype effect versus rarity effect in literary style | 397 |
Themes and hierarchical structure of written texts | 171 |
Computational retrieval of themes | 189 |
Content and context | 217 |
Author index | 433 |
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