It's about time : : temporal aspects of cognitive processes in text production / / Joost Schilperoord.

• Superior document: Utrecht studies in language and communication ; 6
• VerfasserIn: Schilperoord, Joost,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Utrecht studies in language and communication ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (347 pages)

A central issue of cognitive studies of text production is What goes on in people's minds when they produce a text?, How do they plan the text?, How do they decide in what order to express their thoughts? In this volume, writers are followed in their footsteps during the moment-to-moment proces...

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1 TRACKING WRITING IN REAL TIME
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Pause patterns in written text production: research questions
• 3 The cognitive status of pauses
• 4 The Knowledge Telling model of writing
• 5 Real-time research on text production
• 6 Dictation as a mode of text production
• 7 Overview
• CHAPTER 2 KNOWLEDGE TELLING AS A COGNITIVE PROCESS
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Two models of composing
• 3 Declarative knowledge components
• 4 Human cognition and human cognitive processing: ACT* theory
• 5 Production pauses in ACT*
• 6 Routine letter production
• 7 Conclusions
• CHAPTER 3 THE DISTRIBUTION OF PAUSE TIME IN TEXT PRODUCTION
• 1 General introduction
• 2 Research questions
• 3 Psycholinguistic research on pause patterns
• 4 Sampling and preparation of materials
• 5 Analysis I: proportions of pauses
• 6 Analysis II: durations of pauses
• 7 Analysis III: hierarchical and linear aspects of pause durations
• 8 General discussion
• CHAPTER 4 TEXT STRUCTURE AND WRITING PAUSES
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Text analysis and text production research
• 3 The analysis of hierarchical text structure
• 4 Pause patterns and hierarchical structure
• 5 Sampling and preparation of materials
• 6 Analyses
• 7 Summary and conclusions
• CHAPTER 5 TOWARDS AN ACCESSIBILITY THEORY OF TEXT PRODUCTION
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A theory of attention and processing hierarchical networks
• 3 Additive structures in discourse
• 4 Explaining pause time distribution
• 5 Attention processes in causal structures
• 6 Closing remarks
• CHAPTER 6 PAUSES, SYNTACTIC SCHEMAS AND SENTENCE PRODUCTION
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Pausing data
• 3 Incremental Procedural Grammar
• 4 A Usage Based approach to the Mental Grammar
• 5 The processing relevance of schemas
• 6 Schema activation
• 7 Concluding remarks
• CHAPTER 7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Summary
• 3 Some aspects of the scope of the study
• 4 On the construct validity of pausological research on language production
• 5 Reconstructing conceptual processes in text production
• 6 Final remarks
• Bibliography
• Authors index.