LINGUIST List 13.216

Mon Jan 28 2002

Books: Cognitive Linguistics.

Editor for this issue: Richard John Harvey <richardlinguistlist.org>

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1. Paul Peranteau, Cognitive Linguistics: The Structure of Arguments.

John Benjmains Publishing is please to announce this new work in
Language and Cognition:

The Structure of Arguments
Izchak SCHLESINGER, Tamar KEREN-PORTNOY and Tamar PARUSH (The Hebrew 
University of Jerusalem)

Human Cognitive Processing 7
2001. xx, 264 pp. Hardcover
US & Canada: 1 58811 070 2 / USD 79.00
Rest of world: 90 272 2359 9 / EUR 88.00

An important tool for scientific study in any field is a formal
language in which the phenomena can be described and hypotheses
formulated. In this book a formal notation is developed for the
description of the cognitive structure of arguments. The analyses
based on this notation are more fine-grained than the analyses in
previous attempts, and they are applicable not only to arguments but
to all types of moves in a discourse. Further, the notational system
provides a basis for the description of relations between arguments
and the structure of the discourse as a whole. In the final chapter,
some empirical studies of retention of arguments in memory and of
pr�cis writing are reported, based on hypotheses formulated in terms
of the notational system.


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