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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464165603321

Titolo

Language, text, and knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : mental models of expert communication / / edited by Lita Lundquist, Robert J. Jarvella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000

ISBN

3-11-082600-3

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP] ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

LundquistLita

JarvellaR. J

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Psychological aspects

Knowledge, Theory of

Sublanguage

Semantics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Introduction / Lundquist, Lita / Jarvella, Robert J. -- Lexical and dynamic topoi in semantic description: A theoretical and practical differentiation between words and terms / Raccah, Pierre-Yves -- Does routine formulation change meaning? - The impact of genre on word semantics in the legal domain / Engberg, Jan -- Noun phrases in specialized communication. The cognitive processing of the Danish s-genitive construction / Müller, Henrik Høeg -- Semantic roles in expert texts - exemplified by the Patient role in judgments / Almlund, Åse -- Knowledge, events, and anaphors in texts for specific purposes / Lundquist, Lita -- On the structure of legal knowledge : The importance of knowing legal rules for understanding legal texts / Kjær, Anne Lise -- Communicative situations as reflected in text structure. On legal text production and background knowledge / Madsen, Dorte -- Transfer of knowledge in cross-cultural discourse / Rothkegel, Annely -- Argumentation and knowledge - An empirical study on inference-making in expert and novice reasoning / Palsbro, Lene -- Knowledge representation in the domain of economics / Noordman, Leo G. M. / Vonk, Wietske / Simons, Wim H. G. -- On judging quantities



in text without expert knowledge / Jarvella, Robert J. / Mathieu, Suzie -- Risk portrayal and risk appreciation as a problem in language use / Sanford, Anthony J. / Moxey, Linda M. -- Appendix: The TV judgment -- List of contributors -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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.