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1	Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence more books like this by Charlotte Linde add to wishlist This is a sociolinguistic study of how people create and exchange coherent oral life stories. Linde claims such stories serve a number of psychological and social purposes, including the development and expression of a sense of self and the solidification and definition of relationships and group memberships. She focuses on different coherence ... see all copies from $14.20! new only from $34.75! \| SVS
2	Coherence in Psychotic Discourse more books like this by Branca Telles Ribeiro add to wishlist This fascinating study explores the ways of establishing coherence in the discourse of a thought-disordered patient. Ribeiro analyzes the discourse between a doctor and a patient who is under an acute psychotic crisis, and then later, when the patient is deemed recovered. Ribeiro looks at how the participants jointly establish referential meaning, ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Coherence in Natural Language: Data Structures and Applications more books like this by Florian Wolf, Edward Gibson add to wishlist This work offers a discussion of coherence in natural language that develops criteria for descriptively adequate data structures and examines the influence of coherence on psycholinguistic processes and determining the relative importance of document segments. In "Coherence and Natural Language", Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson specify and evaluate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98!
4	Text and Discourse Connectedness more books like this by Marie-Elizabeth Conte (Editor), Emel Sozer (Editor), Janos S Perofi (Editor) add to wishlist This volume provides a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The 35 papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and particles, theme topic, ellipsis, etc., the second group of ... see all copies from $228.30! new only from $228.30! \| SVS
5	A New Perspective on Cohesion in Expository Paragraphs more books like this by Robin Bell Markels add to wishlist Intuitively all users of language under-stand whether a unit of discourse is co-hesive, whether it makes sense. Markels seeks to "formalize some of this innate knowledge about discourse by describing some of the textual cues that contribute to cohesion in particular types of English paragraphs." Focusing on expository paragraphs, she investigates ... see all copies from $29.28! new only from $29.28! \| first editions
6	Semantic Constraints on Relevance more books like this by Diane Blakemore add to wishlist see all copies from $83.25!
7	Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar more books like this by Andy Kehler, Andrew Kehler add to wishlist A natural language discourse is more than an arbitrary sequence of utterances - a discourse exhibits coherence. Despite its centrality to discourse interpretation, coherence rarely plays a role in theories of linguistic phenomena that apply across utterances. In this book, Andrew Kehler provides an analysis of coherence relationships between ... see all copies from $20.16! new only from $24.46! \| SVS
8	Verbal and Signed Languages: Comparing Structures, Constructs and Methodologies more books like this by Elena Pizzuto (Editor), Paola Pietrandrea (Editor), Raffaele Simone (Editor) add to wishlist This book is the first to explore how much of knowledge based on research on spoken languages needs to be refined in the light of the growing field of sign linguistics. Drawing upon a broad cross-linguistic perspective, the contributors focus on topics of general theoretical interest: linearity and arbitrariness principles, definition of units and ... see all copies from $147.78! new only from $147.78! \| SVS
9	Conceptual Coherence of the Book of Micah more books like this by Mignon R Jacobs add to wishlist Micah has two parts, each a dispute about Israel's fate. The coherence of Micah lies in its view of Yahweh's justice in judgment and mercy as the main factor in Israel's fate. This book examines the coherence of the book of Micah by means of analysis of the text's literary structure and conceptuality. A two-part structure is proposed, divided ... see all copies from $55.67! new only from $55.67! \| SVS
10	Conversational Organization and Its Development more books like this by Bruce Dorval add to wishlist see all copies from $41.95! SVS
11	Text and Texture: Patterns of Cohesion more books like this by Sally Stoddard, Sara E Stoddard add to wishlist see all copies from $138.02! new only from $138.02!
12	Collaborating Towards Coherence: Lexical Cohesion in English Discourse more books like this by Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (Editor) add to wishlist This book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators to help their fellow communicators create coherence from a ... see all copies from $148.00! new only from $148.00!
13 view cover	Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics more books like this by John Flowerdew (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $40.00! new only from $107.64!
14 view cover	Situated Communication more books like this by Gert Rickheit (Editor), Ipke Wachsmuth (Editor) add to wishlist This volume presents important results of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) "Situated Artificial Communicators," which was funded by grants from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for more than twelve years. The contributions focus on different aspects of human-human and human-machine ... see all copies from $116.91! new only from $126.97!
15	Coherence Theory: The Case of Russian more books like this by Jens Nrgard-Srensen, Jens Noerga Rd-Soerensen add to wishlist see all copies from $155.57! new only from $155.57!
16	Coherence in spontaneous text more books like this by Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Talmy Givon add to wishlist see all copies from $95.00!
17 view cover	How Language Works: Cohesion in Normal and Nonstandard Communication more books like this by Jonathan Fine add to wishlist see all copies from $50.00!
18	Coherence in Writing: Research and Pedagogical Perspectives more books like this by Ulla Conner (Editor), Ann M. Johns (Editor), Ulla Connor (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $57.98!
19 view cover	Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar more books like this by Andrew Kehler add to wishlist A natural language discourse is more than an arbitrary sequence of utterances; a discourse exhibits coherence. Despite its centrality to discourse interpretation, coherence rarely plays a role in theories of linguistic phenomena that apply across utterances. In this book, Andrew Kehler provides an analysis of coherence relationships between ... see all copies from $48.50! new only from $62.96!
20 view cover	Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to Create It and How to Describe It: Selected Papers from the International Workshop on Coherence, Augs more books like this by Wolfram Bublitz add to wishlist The aim of this collection of papers is to help relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. Coherence has been dismissed as a vague, fuzzy and mystical notion with little practical value for the analyst. However, since the 1980s coherence has found its place as a key concept in discourse and text analysis. In this text, coherence is used in ... see all copies from $290.00! new only from $290.00!
21	The Acquisition of Narratives: Learning to Use Language more books like this by Michael Bamberg add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! first editions
22	Sources of Coherence Reading C more books like this by Robert Frederick Lorch, Edward J O'Brien (Editor) add to wishlist This volume brings together the large body of evidence addressing the roles of text-based and and reader-based sources of coherence in reading comprehension. The contributors present the current state of cognitive theory and research on comprehension of discourse. see all copies from $111.36!
23	Connexity and Coherence: Analysis of Text and Discourse more books like this by W. Heyrich (Editor), Wolfgang Heydrich, Universit at Bielefeld add to wishlist see all copies from $92.00! first editions
24	Communication Language Impaired Child more books like this by Hans Van Balkom add to wishlist Subtitled A study of discourse coherence in conversations of specific-language impaired and normal-language-acquiring children with their primary caregivers, presents the results of two-year longitudinal studies of 18 children aged 2.6 to 4.6. Focuses on the different means for creating discourse c see all copies from $29.99!
25	Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium more books like this by Russell S Tomlin (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $218.99! new only from $218.99!

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