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In:Text and Discourse Connectedness: Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, July 16–21, 1984
Edited by Maria-Elisabeth Conte, János Sánder Petöfi and Emel Sözer
[Studies in Language Companion Series 16] 1989
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 1 January 1989

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Table of contents

Acknowledgementsix

Forewordxi

List of contributorsxxi

Part I. Particular carriers of connectedness

Anaphoric pronouns and noun phrases as text connectors3

“Functional sentence perspective” and text connectedness23

Frantisek Danes

Deictic expressions and the connexity of text33

Some notes on thematics, topic, and typology53

Subordinate and embedded coreference65

Con and Co: Continuity and marqueurs in oral discourse83

How can the meaning of a text be represented?93

Lennart Lönngren

Modality and text constitution103

Ellipsis between connexity and coherence119

Formal connexity and pragmatic cohesion in anaphora interpretation137

Relevance of meaning, semantic disposition, and text coherence: Modelling reader expectations from natural language discourse153

The role of conjunctions and particles for text connexity175

Elizabeth Rudolph

Connexity established by emphatic pronouns191

Isotopy, coreference, and redundancy207

Part II. Text-type specific aspects of connectedness

The development of text competence225

Schema for the analysis of communicative coherence in interaction: The organization of consultations245

On certain peculiarities of narrative cohesion259

Dynamics of cohesion in lyrical texts271

Michael Metzeltin

Paraphrase as a coherence principle in conversation281

The concept of cohesion: Its empirical status in a definition and typology of texts291

Willie van Peer

Macro-structure, knowledge base, and coherence309

Literary coherence and related topics325

Luciano Vitacolonna

Elements of text-based and image-based connectedness in comic stories, and some analogies to cinema and written text337

Part III. General theoretical and methodological questions of research in connectedness

Understanding, text, and coherence363

Text coherence and text interpretation processing377

Michel Charolles

Discursive construction: Analysis of discursive patterns387

The objects of discourse: Connexity and opposition405

Relevant objects and situations413

Connectedness and discourse structure: Perspective semantics of predications and coherence of discourse427

László Imre Komlósi

The grades of reading441

Maria M. Langleben

Connexity, coherence, and the semantic net463

Elisabeth Leinfellner

Semiosis, coherence, and universes of meaning483

Constitution and meaning: A semiotic text-theoretical approach507

János Sánder Petöfi

The role of inferences in text organization543

Roger Van de Velde

Connectedness of texts and relevant consequences563

Index of names577