Writing(s) at the crossroads the process-product interface

In this paper we briefly introduce keystroke logging as a research method in writing research, focusing more explicitly on the recently developed linguistic analysis technique. In a case study of two elderly people (healthy versus demented), we illustrate some aspects of this linguistic approach. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cislaru, Georgeta (Editor), Cislaru, Georgeta, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company 2015
2015.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423461506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Writing(s) at the Crossroads; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Writing(s) at the crossroads; 1. At the crossroads between process and product; 2. Writing as a process: Fine-grained viewpoints on the act of writing; 3. From text to process, and back: What the text is; 4. Writing in context: A socio-anthropological approach; 5. The volume; Acknowledgements; References; Part I. Some core questions about writing; Methodology; 1. Lebensfahrt, Idée suisse, and AL-informed writing research; 2. The double black box: A brief history of investigating writing in the field
  • 3. State-of-the-art toolkit: Four complementary types of methods3.1 The material focus: Tracking intertextual chains with version analysis; 3.2 The mental focus: Identifying writing strategies with progression analysis; 3.3 The social focus: Revealing audience design with variation analysis; 3.4 The socio-cognitive focus: Investigating language policing with metadiscourse analysis; 4. Conclusion; References; Part II. Linguistic forms and choices at the interfaces; The instrumental use of verbless sentences in writing and rewriting; 1. Introduction
  • 2. Verbless sentences and discourse genre constraints3. Corpora; 3.1 Social reports as an example of constrained professional writing; 3.2 The private diary and the letters: Two sides of the same life experience and informational content; 3.3 Methodology and quantitative data; 4. Corpus data and analysis: Typology and textual development of verbless sentences; 4.1 Referential content; 4.2 Grammatical structure of the VS; 4.3 Grammatical structure and semantics of the reformulated unit; 4.4 Status in the text; 4.4.1 Verbless sentences as key concepts
  • 4.4.2 Verbless sentences serving as "to fill in" and "to do" clues5. Interpretation; 5.1 Role of the nonverbal clauses in text configuration; 5.2 Writing for oneself versus writing for others; 6. Conclusions; References; Re-writing operations and their effects of meaning; 1. Introduction; 2. Modifying to be more precise; 2.1 Precision concerning the identity of persons; 2.2 Precision regarding objects; 2.3 Precision concerning time; 3. Objectivity and subjectivity, coexisting effects; 4. Modifying to adjust the intensity; 4.1 Using quantifiers to increase or decrease intensity
  • 4.2 Using qualifiers to increase or decrease intensity5. Conclusion; References; Linguistic forms at the process-product interface; 1. Introduction: Linguistic forms at the process-product interface; 2. Bursts of writing and repeated segments of text; 2.1 Bursts of writing; 2.2 Repeated segments; 2.3 Bursts versus repeated segments; 3. Corpus and methodology; 3.1 Global description of the corpus and of the method of analysis; 3.2 Text progression; 3.3 Pause analysis; 4. Linguistic analysis; 5. Discussion; 5.1 Saturated and unsaturated patterns; 5.2 Cognitive-semantic analysis and discussion
  • 6. Conclusion