Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and writing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Discourse resources in meaning construction and language processing: Discourse management, speaker stance and perspective, cognitive constraints and participant roles
5. Personal and interpersonal gesture spaces: Functional contrasts in language and gesture 25
6. The role of compound pragmatic markers in the construction of Catalan oral narrative 53
7. Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and writing 71
8. Usage-based and form-focused SLA: The implicit and explicit learning of constructions 93
9. Perspective shifts in ASL narratives: The problem of clause structure 121
10. Making dative a case for semantic analysis: Differences in use between native and non-native speakers of German 145
11. Personal pronouns, blending, and narrative viewpoint 167
12. Meaning construction in humorous discourse: Context and incongruities in conceptual blending 183
13. Mental spaces and mental verbs in early child English 199
14. Spanish gustar vs. English like: A cognitive analysis of the constructions and its implication for SLA 233
15. Part II Applying discourse and corpus perspectives to issues in Cognitive Linguistics
16. The development of verb-argument structure in child discourse: On the use of construction variation in peer play 255
17. Another look at French split intransitivity 269
18. BORING: It s anything but 285
19. It s like making a soup: Metaphors and similes in spoken news discourse 301
20. A discourse approach to metaphor: Explaining systematic metaphors for literacy processes in a school discourse community 321
21. Superschemas and the grammar of metaphorical mappings 339
22. Backmatter 361