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Language, text, and knowledge : mental models of expert communication /

Casting light on the interplay between language and domain-specific knowledge, this book brings together ideas and approaches from cognitive linguistics and psychology, explaining how language works.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lundquist, Lita, Jarvella, R. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.
Colección:Text, translation, computational processing ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Lexical and dynamic topoi in semantic description: A theoretical and practical differentiation between words and terms; Does routine formulation change meaning?
  • The impact of genre on word semantics in the legal domain; Noun phrases in specialized communication. The cognitive processing of the Danish s-genitive construction; Semantic roles in expert texts
  • exemplified by the Patient role in judgments Åse Almlund; Knowledge, events, and anaphors in texts for specific purposes
  • On the structure of legal knowledge : The importance of knowing legal rules for understanding legal textsCommunicative situations as reflected in text structure. On legal text production and background knowledge; Transfer of knowledge in cross-cultural discourse; Argumentation and knowledge
  • An empirical study on inference-making in expert and novice reasoning; Knowledge representation in the domain of economics; On judging quantities in text without expert knowledge; Risk portrayal and risk appreciation as a problem in language use; Appendix: The TV judgment; List of contributors