Dialectics of Coherence: Toward An Integrative Theory

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee

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“…In this way, we can expect the model to account for both the regularities in text structures which correspond with similar texts doing similar mediational work, as well as quite specific and arbitrary text structures associated with any given deliberative activity as it unfolds in a social context. This modeling approach comes very close to a process described by Phelps [14] who articulated an approach to structural analysis drawing on and responding to work by Faigley & Witte [15] and Van de Kopple [16] in composition studies, as well as Halliday & Hassan [17] and Van Dijk [18] in linguistics to make sense of apparently competing interests in writing studies, generally, in writing as product vs. writing as process. Phelps [14] sees texts as objects with histories, requiring us to study them "in process" if we are to understand how they shape the experiences of a reader.…”

Section: Challenge 1: Creating Text Structure Models Based On Delibermentioning

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Modeling document-mediated interaction

Hart-Davidson

2002

Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation

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Section: Challenge 1: Creating Text Structure Models Based On Delibermentioning

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Modeling document-mediated interaction

Hart-Davidson

2002

Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation

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“…To say that some telling evaluations are due to their 'timing' is to adopt a temporal or linear perspective on the reading process. As argued by Phelps (1985), this temporal or 'flow' perspective, in which reading is viewed äs on-line activity (i.e. äs energy), can be set against a spatial or 'design' perspective, in which reading is contemplated after the event (i.e.…”

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Evaluations in literary reading

Hunt¹,

Vipond²

1986

Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse

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Evaluations are the means by which teilen of conversational stories, and, by analogy, narrators of literary texts, convey their beliefs, values, and attitudes. From the listener's or the reader's point of view, evaluations are usually signalled by a sense of incongruity between a given element and the local norm of the text. We distinguish three types found in literary narratives: 'discourse evaluations' which can occur when something is expressed in a distinctive way; 'story evaluations' which can occur when something unexpected happens in the storyworld; 'telling evaluations' which can occur when the fact that the narrator mentiom something at all, or mentions it at a particular moment, is surpnsing. Texts appear to have redundant patterns of evaluation, and thus core perceptions tend to be shared among authors, narrators, and 'point-driven* readers. A modern short story is used to illustrate some ofthese ideas.

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“…Daar is bevind dat koherensie inklusief en relatief is: dit kan in terme van 'n reeks verbandhoudende paradokse beskryf word (vgl. Phelps, 1985;Van Schalkwyk, 1998:69-84;Van Schalkwyk & Carstens, 2000). Die paradoksaliteit van koherensie laat ruimte vir (skynbaar) onsamehangende tekste en derhalwe voldoen hierdie tipe tekste tog aan koherensie as vernaamste beginsel van tekstualiteit.…”

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<i>Karolina Ferreira</i> (1993) van Lettie Viljoen en Vincent van Gogh se 'Die Nagkafee' (1888): ’n ruimtelik-koherente lesing

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Plooy²,

Carstens³

2002

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Karolina Ferreira (1993) by Lettie Viljoen and Vincent van Gogh’s 'The Night Café' (1888): A spatial-coherent reading Building on the text-linguistic definition of coherence as an intra-, inter-, and extratextual unity the underlying relations in Karolina Ferreira by Lettie Viljoen are explored. Vincent van Gogh’s “The Night Café” is a hidden spatial-visual intertext which can serve as a centre of contemplation regarding the coherence of Karolina Ferreira and that of Viljoen’s oeuvre. Van Gogh’s description of this work in his letters is echoed in Viljoen’s depiction of the billiard room, a space betwixt and between. “The Night Café” resonates intra-, inter-, and metatextually and unlocks the circular or spheric-spatial coherence of Karolina Ferreira, which can be visualized as a (Buddhist) mandala. At the core of this mandala is the billiard table: the meditative object and centre of control with respect to the narrative space (textual space) and the narrated, intertextual, and metatextual spatial dimensions of Karolina Ferreira. Metatextually Karolina Ferreira disrupts the conventional temporality of narrative texts in favour of the suppressed narrative category of space.

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Dialectics of Coherence: Toward An Integrative Theory

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Modeling document-mediated interaction

Modeling document-mediated interaction

Evaluations in literary reading

<i>Karolina Ferreira</i> (1993) van Lettie Viljoen en Vincent van Gogh se 'Die Nagkafee' (1888): ’n ruimtelik-koherente lesing

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