TY - BOOK AU - Louwerse,Max AU - Peer,Willie van TI - Thematics: interdisciplinary studies T2 - Converging evidence in language and communication research, SN - 1588111075 AV - PN45. T474 2002 U1 - 809 PY - 2002///] CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - J. Benjamins Pub. Co. KW - Comparative literature KW - Themes, motives N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Max Louwerse and Willie van Peer --; Pt. I; Structure and processing; 1; Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension; Arthur C. Graesser, Victoria J. Pomeroy and Scotty D. Craig; 2; Situation models and themes; Rolf A. Zwaan, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Shannon Whitten; 3; Conditions of updating during reading; Herre van Oostendorp, Jose Otero and Juan Miguel Campanario; 4; Evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points; Yeshayahu Shen; 5; Responding to style: cohesion, foregrounding, and thematic interpretation; Catherine Emmott; 6; The definite article as cue to map thematic information; Morton Ann Gernsbacher and Rachel Robertson; 7; Thematic management in Korean narrative; Myung-Hee Kim; 8; On the notions of theme and topic in psychological process models of text comprehension; Walter Kintsch; 9; Themes and hierarchical structure of written texts; Elisabeth Le; 10; Computational retrieval of themes; Max Louwerse --; Pt. II; Content and context; 11; Thematics today; Werner Sollors; 12; Seven trends in recent thematics and a case study; Bo Pettersson; 13; Where do literary themes come from?; Willie van Peer; 14; Motives and motifs in visual thematics; George Roque; 15; Masking one's themes: irony and the politics of indirectness; Rachel Giora; 16; Themes of nation; Mette Hjort; 17; The theme of war in contemporary German prose fiction; Horst Daemmrich; 18; Why themes matter: Literary knowledge and the thematic example of money; Philipp Wolf; 19; Moving targets: The making and molding of a theme; Robert Hogenraad; 20; Quantitative hermeneutics: Inferring the meaning of narratives, from trends in context; Colin Martindale and Alan N. West; 21; Prototype effect versus rarity effect in literary style; Paul Fortier; 22; Parsing for the theme: A computer based approach; Jan Christoph Meister ER -