Wilbert Spooren
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wilbert Spooren is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1566-7774
Journal
Document Design
Journal of Research and Problem Solving in Organizational Communication
General Editor: Jan Renkema
ISSN 1388-8951 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9722
Identifying information and tenor in texts
Edited by Luuk Lagerwerf, Wilbert Spooren and Liesbeth Degand
Special issue of Information Design Journal 13:1 (2005) 96 pp.
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics: Second revised edition
Edited by René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1] 2004. xii, 277 pp.
Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects
Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders, Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren
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… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 8] 2001. viii, 363 pp.
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics
René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1 (1999)] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.
2021 How subjective are Mandarin reason connectives? A corpus study of spontaneous conversation, microblog and newspaper discourse Language and Linguistics 22:1, pp. 167–212 | Article
Studies in several languages find that causal connectives differ from one another in their prototypical meaning and use, which provides insight into language users’ cognitive categorization of causal relations in discourse. Subjectivity plays a vital role in this process. Using an integrated… read more
2019 Chapter 6. Determinants of abstractness and concreteness and their persuasive effects Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication, Bolognesi, Marianna and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 121–144 | Chapter
The writing guideline to avoid abstractness and to use concrete language instead has a long and well-deserved reputation. Nevertheless, it is not clear what constitutes concrete language. In this chapter we report two studies. The first investigates the determinants of concreteness and… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Introduction Visual Metaphor: Structure and process, Steen, Gerard J. (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2012 Tracking referents in discourse Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 1:1, pp. 59–79 | Article
This reading study registered eye movements to investigate the influence of different discourse constructional factors on anaphor resolution in written discourse. More specifically, the study focused on the influence of the possible interplay of proximity between a possible referent and the… read more
2009 The cognition of discourse coherence Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 197–212 | Article
2005 Identifying information and tenor in texts: Introduction Identifying information and tenor in texts, Lagerwerf, Luuk, Wilbert Spooren and Liesbeth Degand (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Article
2003 The acquisition of reading skills Document Design 4:1, pp. 96–98 | Miscellaneous
2003 Review of Schiffrin, Tannen & Hamilton (2001): Document Design 4:2, pp. 189–193 | Review
2003 Cause and effect in reading documents: Reserach watch Document Design 4:2, pp. 182–184 | Miscellaneous
2003 Research watch: Spoken and written, verbal and nonverbal communication Document Design 4:3, pp. 272–274 | Article
2003 Implications of what is said: The difference between what is stated and what is meant Information Design Journal 11:2/3, pp. 261–263 | Subsection
Fortunately, communication is not fully explicit. When people talk and write, they leave things unsaid. Writers assume, and rightly so, that their audience is intelligent enough to infer the intended meaning ‘between the lines’. If I am sitting in a train compartment, smoking a cigarette, and the… read more
2002 Communication and argumentation Document Design 3:3, pp. 271–273 | Miscellaneous
2002 Uncertainty in communication via text and conversation Document Design 3:2, pp. 174–177 | Miscellaneous
2002 Review of Nystrand (2001): Special issue of Written Communication Document Design 3:1, pp. 80–94 | Review
2001 Text representation as an interface between language and its users Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects, Sanders, Ted J.M., Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
1999 Editorial: New Horizons in document design Document Design 1:1, pp. 1–6 | Miscellaneous
1999 Communicative Intentions and Coherence Relations Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it, Bublitz, Wolfram, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola (eds.), pp. 235–250 | Article
1999 Theoretical and applied communication studies Document Design 1:2, pp. 145–148 | Miscellaneous
1999 Paradigms for discourse psychology Document Design 1:1, pp. 63–66 | Miscellaneous
1999 Communication design Document Design 1:3, pp. 221–224 | Miscellaneous
1997 Perspective, Subjectivity, and Modality from a Cognitive Linguistic Point of View Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics, Liebert, Wolf-Andreas, Gisela Redeker and Linda R. Waugh (eds.), pp. 85–114 | Article