Under the tumtum tree : from nonsense to sense, a study in nonautomatic comprehension

Marlene Dolitsky

Any informal discussion of a piece of nonsense literature produces highly varying interpretations which retain, however, a common core. It seemed, then, that nonsense would be a fertile base in the study of nonautomatic comprehension, i.e. comprehension where the word-meaning relations do not seem to be self-evident. And fertile it was! This monograph reports the results of a study into the nonautomatic functioning of the linguistic network which includes idiosyncratic as well as common, coded elements at all levels: semantic, syntactic, and phonetic as well as episodic. To carry it out, a number of adults and children were given nonsense texts to interpret. These interpretations were in turn analyzed as to the strategies applied toward the comprehension of those texts. Various examples of nonsense in mass media were also analyzed in the light of these findings.

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Any informal discussion of a piece of nonsense literature produces highly varying interpretations which retain, however, a common core. It seemed, then, that nonsense would be a fertile base in the study of nonautomatic comprehension, i.e. comprehension where the word-meaning relations do not seem to be self-evident. And fertile it was! This monograph reports the results of a study into the nonautomatic functioning of the linguistic network which includes idiosyncratic as well as common, coded elements at all levels: semantic, syntactic, and phonetic as well as episodic. To carry it out, a number of adults and children were given nonsense texts to interpret. These interpretations were in turn analyzed as to the strategies applied toward the comprehension of those texts. Various examples of nonsense in mass media were also analyzed in the light of these findings.

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[目次]

  • 1. Acknowledgments, pvii
  • 2. 0. Introduction, p1
  • 3. 1. Nonsense, p5
  • 4. 2. The comprehension of nonsense, p13
  • 5. 3. Nonsense and word meaning, p27
  • 6. 4. Children's comprehension of nonsense, p41
  • 7. 5. The nonsense of an unknown language, p73
  • 8. 6. Nonsense in our daily lives, p93
  • 9. 7. Nonsense: conclusion, p101
  • 10. Appendixes, p107
  • 11. Footnotes, p113
  • 12. References, p115

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[目次]

  • 1. Acknowledgments, pvii
  • 2. 0. Introduction, p1
  • 3. 1. Nonsense, p5
  • 4. 2. The comprehension of nonsense, p13
  • 5. 3. Nonsense and word meaning, p27
  • 6. 4. Children's comprehension of nonsense, p41
  • 7. 5. The nonsense of an unknown language, p73
  • 8. 6. Nonsense in our daily lives, p93
  • 9. 7. Nonsense: conclusion, p101
  • 10. Appendixes, p107
  • 11. Footnotes, p113
  • 12. References, p115

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この本の情報

書名 Under the tumtum tree : from nonsense to sense, a study in nonautomatic comprehension
著作者等 Dolitsky, Marlene
シリーズ名 Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies
出版元 J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
刊行年月 1984
ページ数 119 p.
大きさ 22 cm
ISBN 9027225346
0915027399
NCID BA00688352
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言語 英語
出版国 オランダ
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