Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Structure and processing
6. Introduction to Part I 16
7. Section 1. Theoretical approaches
8. 1. Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension 19
9. 2. Situation models and themes 35
10. 3. Conditions of updating during reading 55
11. Section 2. Experimental and corpus linguistic approaches
12. 4. Evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points 77
13. 5. Responding to style 91
14. 6. The definite article the as a cue to map thematic information 119
15. 7. Thematic management in Korean 137
16. Section 3. Computational approaches
17. 8. On the notions of theme and topic in psychological process models of text comprehension 157
18. 9. Themes and hierarchical structure of written texts 171
19. 10. Computational retrieval of themes 189
20. Part II. Contents and contexts
21. Introduction to Part II 214
22. Section 1. Theoretical approaches
23. 11. Thematics today 217
24. 12. Seven trends in recent thematics and a case study 237
25. 13. Where do literary themes come from? 253
26. 14. Motives and motifs in visual thematics 265
27. Section 2. Interpretive approaches
28. 15. Masking one’s themes 283
29. 16. Themes of nation 301
30. 17. Tracking a theme 321
31. 18. Why themes matter 341
32. Section 3. Computational approaches
33. 19. Moving targets 353
34. 20. Quantitative hermeneutics 377
35. 21. Prototype effect vs. rarity effect in literary style 397
36. 22. Parsing for the theme 407
37. Name index 433
38. Subject index 443