The Notion of Coherence in Discourse

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction VII
4. Part I: Focus
5. Distinguishing between Explicit and Implicit Focus during Text Comprehension 3
6. Notes on Plural Reference and the Scenario-Mapping Principle in Comprehension 18
7. Focussing in Spatial Mental Models 35
8. Focussing and the Process of Pronominal Resolution 53
9. Focussing on the Use of German beide 75
10. Part II: Coherence
11. Special Determinants of Coherence in Spoken Dialogue 97
12. Coherence Regained 115
13. Comprehension Processes as a Means for Text Generation 143
14. Economical Principles in Coherence Management: A Cognitive Systems Approach 170
15. The Notion of Coherence in Discourse 190
16. Cohesion Processes, Coherence, and Anomaly Detection 203
17. Distributed Text Structure Parsing - Computing Thematic Progressions in Expository Texts 214
18. Causality in Discourse 251
19. Focus and Anaphora. A Selected Bibliography (1985-1993) 261
20. Subject Index 299
21. 301-304 301