Thematics : interdisciplinary studies /
edited by Max Louwerse, Willie van Peer.
- x, 448 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Converging evidence in language and communication research, v. 3 1566-7774 ; .
- Converging evidence in language and communication research ; v. 3. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Structure and processing. Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension / Situation models and themes / Conditions of updating during reading / Evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points / Responding to style: cohesion, foregrounding, and thematic interpretation / The definite article as cue to map thematic information / Thematic management in Korean narrative / On the notions of theme and topic in psychological process models of text comprehension / Themes and hierarchical structure of written texts / Computational retrieval of themes / Content and context. Thematics today / Seven trends in recent thematics and a case study / Where do literary themes come from? / Motives and motifs in visual thematics / Masking one's themes: irony and the politics of indirectness / Themes of nation / The theme of war in contemporary German prose fiction / Why themes matter: Literary knowledge and the thematic example of money / Moving targets: The making and molding of a theme / Quantitative hermeneutics: Inferring the meaning of narratives, from trends in context / Prototype effect versus rarity effect in literary style / Parsing for the theme: A computer based approach / Max Louwerse and Willie van Peer -- Arthur C. Graesser, Victoria J. Pomeroy and Scotty D. Craig. Rolf A. Zwaan, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Shannon Whitten. Herre van Oostendorp, Jose Otero and Juan Miguel Campanario. Yeshayahu Shen. Catherine Emmott. Morton Ann Gernsbacher and Rachel Robertson. Myung-Hee Kim. Walter Kintsch. Elisabeth Le. Max Louwerse -- Werner Sollors. Bo Pettersson. Willie van Peer. George Roque. Rachel Giora. Mette Hjort. Horst Daemmrich. Philipp Wolf. Robert Hogenraad. Colin Martindale and Alan N. West. Paul Fortier. Jan Christoph Meister. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. II. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.