Comprehensibility and the basic structures of dialogue

  • The study of what makes utterances difficult or easy to understand is one of the central topics of research in comprehension. It is both theoretically attractive and useful in practice. The more we know about difficulties in understanding the more we know about understanding. And the better we grasp typical problems of understanding in certain types of discourse and for certain recipients the better we can overcome these problems and the better we can advise people whose job it is to overcome such problems. It is therefore not surprising that comprehensibility has been the object of much reflection as far back as the days of classical rhetoric and that it is a center of lively interest in several present-day scientific disciplines, ranging from artificial intelligence and educational psychology to linguistics.

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Author:Gerd Fritz
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1136901
URL:http://www.festschrift-gerd-fritz.de/files/publ_hp/fritz_1991_comprehensibility.pdf
ISBN:978-3-484-75001-2
Parent Title (German):Beiträge zur Dialogforschung ; Bd. 1, Dialoganalyse : Referate der 3. Arbeitstagung, Bologna 1990, Teil 1, Sorin Stati, Edda Weigand und Franz Hundsnurscher (Hrsg.)
Publisher:Max Niemeyer Verlag
Place of publication:Tübingen
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2009/11/10
Year of first Publication:1991
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2009/11/10
Tag:Usability
GND Keyword:Dialog; Kommunikationsanalyse
Page Number:23
First Page:3
Last Page:24
Source:http://www.festschrift-gerd-fritz.de/files/publ_hp/fritz_1991_comprehensibility.pdf ; (in:) Sorin Stati, Edda Weigand: Dialoganalyse III. - Tübingen: 1991, S. 3-24
HeBIS-PPN:220364710
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
Linguistik
BDSL-Klassifikation:02.00.00 Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft (in Auswahl) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 02.00.00 Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft > 02.02.00 Studien
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht