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Under the Tumtum Tree : From nonsense to sense, a study in non-automatic comprehension.
Any informal discussion of a piece of nonsense literature produces highly varying interpretations which retain, however, a common core. It seemed, then, that nonsense would be a fertile base in the study of nonautomatic comprehension, i.e. comprehension where the word-meaning relations do not seem t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1984.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
5:1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- UNDER THE TUMTUM TREE From Nonsense to Sense, A Study in Nonautomatic Comprehension; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 0. INTRODUCTION; 1. NONSENSE; 1.1. Gobbledegook; 1.2. Semantic contradiction; 1.3. Metalinguistic contradiction; 1.4. Rule-governed other-worldliness; 1.5. Nonsense and absurdity; 1.6. The surrealists and their nonsense; 1.7. Conclusion; 2. THE COMPREHENSION OF NONSENSE; 2.1. Carroll's "Jabberwocky" and neologisms; 2.2. Method; 2.3. Results; 2.3.1. The coded homonym; 2.3.2. The prelinguistic level of comprehension.
- 2.3.3. Metaphor and simile2.3.4. Modalization and generalization; 2.3.5. Self-enhancing texts; 2.4. Discussion; 3. NONSENSE AND WORD MEANING; 3.1. Method; 3.2. Results; 3.2.2. Frames; 3.2.3. Phonetic comprehension strategies; 3.2.4. Semantic association; 3.2.5. Onomatopeia; 3.3. Discussion; 4. CHILDREN'S COMPREHENSION OF NONSENSE; 4.1. Method; 4.2. A global study; 4.3. Word meaning; 4.3. Pictures; 4.4. Discussion; 5. THE UNKNOWN LANGUAGE; 5.1. Method; 5.2. Results; 5.3. Further work with unknown language; 5.3.1. Results; 5.3.2. Discussion.
- 5.4. Further work with unknown language: "fate is unfair" and "The mouse's tale"5.4.1. Results; 5.4.2. Discussion; 6. NONSENSE IN OUR DAILY LIVES; 6.1. Nonsense in science fiction; 6.2. Daily nonsense; 6.3. Advertising nonsense; 7. NONSENSE
- CONCLUSION; APPENDIXES; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; FOOTNOTES; REFERENCES.