Yves Bestgen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yves Bestgen is involved.
2006 Reading and expertise: The impact of connectives on text comprehension in the financial field Information and Document Design: Varieties on Recent Research, Carliner, Saul, Jan Piet Verckens and Cathy de Waele (eds.), pp. 149–165 | Article
2002 Assessing improvement in longer texts: Can we trust subjective judgments? Document Design 3:2, pp. 102–113 | Article
2002 Structure and topic information in expository text overviews Document Design 3:1, pp. 2–12 | Article
The current wisdom on texts is that they should start by providing readers with an overview of the content (the topics discussed) and the structure (the relationship between the topics). However, in a recent paper Murray and McGlone (1997) reported that readers benefit from topic information but… read more
1999 The impact of connectives and anaphoric expressions on expository discourse comprehension Document Design 1:1, pp. 39–51 | Article
This study focuses on the impact of linguistic markers of coherence on the comprehension of expository discourse. The impact of such markers on comprehension (i.e., off-line) is a highly controversial topic in current studies, especially for connectives for which a facilitating as well as an… read more