Language, Text, and Knowledge: Mental Models of Expert Communication / Edition 1

by Lita Lundquist, Robert J. Jarvella

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110167245
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	05/25/2000
Series:	Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP] , #2
Edition description:	Reprint 2010
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
	Lexical and dynamic topoi in semantic description: A theoretical and practical differentiation between words and terms	11
	Does routine formulation change meaning? - The impact of genre on word semantics in the legal domain	31
	Noun phrases in specialized communication. The cognitive processing of the Danish s-genitive construction	49
	Semantic roles in expert texts - exemplified by the Patient role in judgments	83
	Knowledge, events, and anaphors in texts for specific purposes	97
	On the structure of legal knowledge: The importance of knowing legal rules for understanding legal texts	127
	Communicative situations as reflected in text structure. On legal text production and background knowledge	163
	Transfer of knowledge in cross-cultural discourse	189
	Argumentation and knowledge - An empirical study on inference-making in expert and novice reasoning	207
	Knowledge representation in the domain of economics	235
	On judging quantities in text without expert knowledge	261
	Risk portrayal and risk appreciation as a problem in language use	285
Appendix	The TV judgment	307
	List of contributors	311
	Subject index	313

Editorial Reviews

Based on the notion that when people use text to communicate, some special knowledge is usually at stake, European scholars of communication, psychology, and business assemble some recent attempts to explain how knowledge and language interact when people create, use, and understand text. They focus largely on knowledge possessed by experts and the kind of communication that is about a domain that in some way involves experts. The 13 topics include a theoretical and practical differentiation between words and terms, semantic roles in expert texts as exemplified by the patient role in judgements, the importance of knowing legal rules for understanding legal texts, the transfer of knowledge in cross-cultural discourse, knowledge representation in the domain of economics, judging quantities in text without expert knowledge, and portraying and appreciating risk as a problem in language use. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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