3. The semantic and pragmatic structure of discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors’ critical foreword ix
4. Foreword xxiii
5. Abbreviations and symbols xxix
6. 1. The psycholinguistic approach to SI research 1
7. 2. Speed, memory and simultaneity 11
8. 3. The semantic and pragmatic structure of discourse 25
9. 4. Semantic structure and objective semantic redundancy 39
10. 5. Communicative context and subjective redundancy 57
11. 6. A probabilistic anticipation model for SI 91
12. 7. Theme and compression 107
13. 8. Rheme and information density 121
14. 9. Syntax and communicative word order 135
15. 10. SI and Anokhin’s theory of activity 165
16. 11. Anticipation and SI 185
17. 12. Conclusion 199
18. Notes 201
19. References 213
20. Appendix A. Buenos Aires corpus — UN, 1978, Experiment in Remote Interpreting 223
21. Appendix B. United Nations General Assembly sessions 241
22. Appendix C. Texts with two types of test items used as input in an SI probability anticipation experiment (Chernov 1978) 247
23. Name index 253
24. Subject index 257