Language Comprehension As Structure Building

Author : Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134756216

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This book presents a new theoretical framework -- what Gernsbacher calls the Structure Building Framework -- for understanding language comprehension in particular, and cognitive processing in general. According to this framework, the goal in comprehending both linguistic and nonlinguistic materials is to build a coherent mental representation or "structure" of the information being comprehended. As such, the underlying processes and mechanisms of structure building are viewed as general, cognitive processes and mechanisms. The strength of the volume lies in its empirical detail: a thorough literature review and solid original data.

Author : Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134756148

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Language Comprehension As Structure Building by Morton Ann Gernsbacher Pdf

This book presents a new theoretical framework -- what Gernsbacher calls the Structure Building Framework -- for understanding language comprehension in particular, and cognitive processing in general. According to this framework, the goal in comprehending both linguistic and nonlinguistic materials is to build a coherent mental representation or "structure" of the information being comprehended. As such, the underlying processes and mechanisms of structure building are viewed as general, cognitive processes and mechanisms. The strength of the volume lies in its empirical detail: a thorough literature review and solid original data.

Author : Mark Jung Beeman,Christine Chiarello
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134794294

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Right Hemisphere Language Comprehension by Mark Jung Beeman,Christine Chiarello Pdf

The statement, "The Right Hemisphere (RH) processes language"--while not exactly revolutionary--still provokes vigorous debate. It often elicits the argument that anything the RH does with language is not linguistic but "paralinguistic." The resistance to the notion of RH language processing persists despite the fact that even the earliest observers of Left Hemisphere (LH) language specialization posited some role for the RH in language processing, and evidence attesting to various RH language processes has steadily accrued for more than 30 years. In this volume, chapters pertain to a wide, but by no means, exhaustive set of language comprehension processes for which RH contributions have been demonstrated. The sections are organized around these processes, beginning with initial decoding of written or spoken input, proceeding through semantic processing of single words and sentences, up to comprehension of more complex discourse, as well as problem solving. The chapters assembled here should begin to melt this resistance to evidence of RH language processing. This volume's main goal is to compile evidence about RH language function from a scattered literature. The editorial commentaries concluding each section highlight the relevance of these phenomena for psycholinguistic and neuropsychological theory, and discuss similarities and apparent discrepancies in the findings reported in individual chapters. In the final chapter, common themes that emerge from the enterprise of studying RH language and future challenge for the field are reviewed. Although all chapters focus only on "typical" laterality of right handed people, this work provides a representative sample of the current state of the art in RH language research. Important features include: * a wide range of coverage from speech perception and reading through complex discourse comprehension and problem-solving; * research presented from both empirical and theoretical perspectives; and * commentaries and conclusions integrating findings and theories across sub-domains, and speculating on future directions of the field.

Author : Bruce K. Britton,Arthur C. Graesser
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317779667

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Models of Understanding Text by Bruce K. Britton,Arthur C. Graesser Pdf

What is text understanding? It is the dynamic process of constructing coherent representations and inferences at multiple levels of text and context, within the bottleneck of a limited-capacity working memory. The field of text and discourse has advanced to the point where researchers have developed sophisticated models of comprehension, and identified the particular assumptions that underlie comprehension mechanisms in precise analytical or mathematical detail. The models offer a priori predictions about thought and behavior, not merely ad hoc descriptions of data. Indeed, the field has evolved to a mature science. The contributors to this volume collectively cover the major models of comprehension in the field of text and discourse. Other books are either narrow -- covering only a single theoretical framework -- or do not focus on systematic modeling efforts. In addition, this book focuses on deep levels of understanding rather than language codes, syntax, and other shallower levels of text analysis. As such, it provides readers with up-to-date information on current psychological models specified in quantitative or analytical detail.

Author : Ronald T. Kellogg
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0761921303

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Cognitive Psychology by Ronald T. Kellogg Pdf

As with his best-selling first edition, Ronald T. Kellogg seeks to provide students with a synthesis of cognitive psychology at its best, encapsulating relevant background, theory, and research within each chapter. Understanding cognitive psychology now requires a deeper understanding of the brain than was true in the past. In his thoroughly revised second edition, the author highlights the tremendous contributions from the neurosciences, most notably neuroimaging, in recent years and approaches cognition in the context of both its development and its biological, bodily substrate.

Author : Ted J.M. Sanders,Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135482657

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Accessibility in Text and Discourse Processing by Ted J.M. Sanders,Morton Ann Gernsbacher Pdf

This special issue shows how accessibility phenomena need to be studied from a linguistic and psycholinguistic angle, and in the latter case from interpretation, as well as production. The contributions augment the growing knowledge of accessibility in text and discourse processing. They also illuminate how accessibility is marked in a text or a discourse, how readers and listeners respond to those markings, and how mental representations evolve and change as a direct result of accessibility. The editors hope is that the text affects the readers' representations in ways that linguists and psycholinguists theorize as beneficial.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D02248565L

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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1998 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : United States
ISBN : LOC:00101900812

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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1998: Commanders in chief by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security Pdf

Author : Max Louwerse,Willie Van Peer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588112829

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Thematics by Max Louwerse,Willie Van Peer Pdf

Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of 'themes' in texts and how they are structured in language use.Much of the literature on Thematics is scattered over different disciplines (literature, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science), which this detailed collection pulls together in one coherent overview. The result is a new landmark for the study and understanding of themes in their everyday manifestation.

Author : Wei Cai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429595936

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Teaching and Researching Chinese Second Language Listening by Wei Cai Pdf

Teaching and Researching Chinese Second Language Listening focuses on Chinese L2 listening with theory and pedagogy at its heart. The objectives of the book are to recount the development of Chinese L2 listening pedagogy, to synthesize research on Chinese L2 listening, and to propose a Chinese L2 listening approach. This book is the first to bridge the gap between Chinese L2 and general L2 listening and develop a much-needed systematic teaching approach to Chinese listening based on research findings in L2 listening, the unique features of the Chinese language, and the distinctive characteristics of the Chinese L2 learner population. This book grounds Chinese L2 teaching in solid theories of L2 acquisition and teaching. The research-informed and evidence-based Chinese L2 teaching approach proposed in the book seeks to move beyond the traditional product-oriented approach to integrate form-, meaning-, process-, and learner-focused listening. This book also discusses Chinese L2 listening from learners’ perspectives: heritage versus non-heritage learners and motivation. These are presented together with theory and teaching practice. The book is aimed at researchers, in-service teachers and students taking upper-level undergraduate courses and postgraduate courses for programs in Chinese applied linguistics and teaching Chinese as a second language (TCSL). Chinese listening studies to date have mostly been published in the Chinese language, which severely limits their readership. This book is therefore written in English to fill the gap in current scholarship. Due to a large number of Chinese learners and the consequential booming programs in TCSL and CIE (Chinese international education), it is important to dedicate a book specifically to Chinese listening.

Author : Teun A Van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446209943

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Discourse Studies by Teun A Van Dijk Pdf

"A landmark in the oeuvre of one of the founding fathers of discourse analysis. Van Dijk has managed to edit a volume of lasting significance, and some of the chapters in this book belong to the most widely read in the field. In its totality, Discourse Studies offers us a 360 degree tour of the field... Nothing in this volume is dated, everything remains mandatory reading for every student and advanced practicioner." - Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University "This very welcome updated second edition will allow Teun van Dijk′s very popular Discourse Studies to consolidate its already strong and central position in the area. Featuring chapters written by so many of the leading scholars it will continue to be a stimulating and wide-ranging introduction to the discipline of discourse studies for new generations of students." - Malcolm Coulthard, University of Birmingham This book is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. A combined Second Edition of two seminal texts in the field (the 1997 titles Discourse as Social Interaction and Discourse as Structure and Process) this essential handbook: Is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research literature. Covers everything from grammar, narrative, argumentation, cognition and pragmatics to social, political and critical approaches. Adds two new chapters on ideology and identity. Puts the student at the centre, offering brand new features such as worked examples, sample analyses and recommended further reading. Written and edited by world-class scholars in their fields, it is the essential, one-stop companion for any student of discourse analysis and discourse studies.

Author : Simon Garrod,Martin Pickering
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317715375

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Language Processing by Simon Garrod,Martin Pickering Pdf

Language Processing questions what happens when we process language - what mental operations occur during processing and how they are organised over time. The last decade has seen real advances in the study of language processing that have wide ranging implications for human cognition in general. Language Processing gives an account of these developments both as they relate to experimental studies of processing and as they relate to computational modelling of the processes. In addition to chapters covering core topics, such as lexical processing, syntactic parsing and the comprehension of discourse, special topics of recent interest are also included.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080922783

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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation by Anonim Pdf

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 51 includes chapters on such varied topics as emotion and memory interference, electrophysiology, mathematical cognition, and reader participation in narrative. * Volume 51 of the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series * An essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science * Relevant to both applied concerns and basic research

Author : G.B. Simpson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080867316

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Understanding Word and Sentence by G.B. Simpson Pdf

Research concerning structure and processing in the mental lexicon has achieved central prominence within cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. Historically, however, much of the research on the lexicon focussed not on its role in language comprehension, but as a medium for studying semantic memory. This picture has changed in recent years, with much more research examining the role of lexical processes and output in language comprehension. Gathered together in this volume is the work of some of those researchers who are responsible for this shift of emphasis. Chapters deal with the role of sentence contexts in word recognition, processes involved in the activation and enhancement of lexical information, and the interaction of lexical and syntactic information in sentence processing. A wide range of theoretical and empirical issues relating to language understanding are discussed.

Author : Dawn P. Flanagan,Patti L. Harrison
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781609189976

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Contemporary Intellectual Assessment, Third Edition by Dawn P. Flanagan,Patti L. Harrison Pdf

In one volume, this authoritative reference presents a current, comprehensive overview of intellectual and cognitive assessment, with a focus on practical applications. Leaders in the field describe major theories of intelligence and provide the knowledge needed to use the latest measures of cognitive abilities with individuals of all ages, from toddlers to adults. Evidence-based approaches to test interpretation, and their relevance for intervention, are described. The book addresses critical issues in assessing particular populations—including culturally and linguistically diverse students, gifted students, and those with learning difficulties and disabilities—in today's educational settings. New to This Edition*Incorporates major research advances and legislative and policy changes.*Covers recent test revisions plus additional tests: the NEPSY-II and the Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability.*Expanded coverage of specific populations: chapters on autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, sensory and physical disabilities and traumatic brain injury, and intellectual disabilities.*Chapters on neuropsychological approaches, assessment of executive functions, and multi-tiered service delivery models in schools.