Main description:
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 6;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.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Structure and processing
- Section 1. Theoretical approaches
- 1. Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension
- 2. Situation models and themes
- 3. Conditions of updating during reading
- Section 2. Experimental and corpus linguistic approaches
- 4. Evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points
- 5. Responding to style
- 6. The definite article the as a cue to map thematic information
- 7. Thematic management in Korean
- Section 3. Computational approaches
- 8. On the notions of theme and topic in psychological process models of text comprehension
- 9. Themes and hierarchical structure of written texts
- 10. Computational retrieval of themes
- Part II. Contents and contexts
- 11. Thematics today
- 12. Seven trends in recent thematics and a case study
- 13. Where do literary themes come from?
- 14. Motives and motifs in visual thematics
- Section 2. Interpretive approaches
- 15. Masking one’s themes
- 16. Themes of nation
- 17. Tracking a theme
- 18. Why themes matter
- 19. Moving targets
- 20. Quantitative hermeneutics
- 21. Prototype effect vs. rarity effect in literary style
- 22. Parsing for the theme
- Name index
- Subject index
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 6;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.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Structure and processing
- Section 1. Theoretical approaches
- 1. Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension
- 2. Situation models and themes
- 3. Conditions of updating during reading
- Section 2. Experimental and corpus linguistic approaches
- 4. Evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points
- 5. Responding to style
- 6. The definite article the as a cue to map thematic information
- 7. Thematic management in Korean
- Section 3. Computational approaches
- 8. On the notions of theme and topic in psychological process models of text comprehension
- 9. Themes and hierarchical structure of written texts
- 10. Computational retrieval of themes
- Part II. Contents and contexts
- 11. Thematics today
- 12. Seven trends in recent thematics and a case study
- 13. Where do literary themes come from?
- 14. Motives and motifs in visual thematics
- Section 2. Interpretive approaches
- 15. Masking one’s themes
- 16. Themes of nation
- 17. Tracking a theme
- 18. Why themes matter
- 19. Moving targets
- 20. Quantitative hermeneutics
- 21. Prototype effect vs. rarity effect in literary style
- 22. Parsing for the theme
- Name index
- Subject index