COHERENCE IN SPONTANEOUS TEXT -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copy right page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction Coherence as a mental entity -- Negotiating coherence in dialogue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 2.1. Subjects -- 2.2. Materials -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Introductions in child dialogues -- 3.2. The listener's role in negotiating coherence: forms of introduction and listener's responses -- 3.3. Introductions in adult dialogues -- 3.3.1. Subjects -- 3.3.2. Materials -- 3.3.3. Analysis -- 3.3.4. Results -- 4. Discussion -- REFERENCES -- The negotiation of coherence in face-to-face interaction: Some examples from the extreme bounds -- 1. Introductory -- 2. What is 'coherent' text? -- 3. The bounds of coherence -- 3.1. Maximal coherence = maximal redundancy? -- 3.1.1 Repetition within a speaker-turn -- 3.1.2. Repetition involving more than one speaker -- 3.2. Maximal incoherence? or polyphonic talk? -- 3.2.1. Contradiction -- 3.3. Polyphonic talk -- 4. Problems at the bounds -- 4.1 Incoherent sequences in asymmetrical talk -- 4.2 Norms of coherence in the public domain -- 6. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Coherence in text vs. coherence in mind -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Coherence and grounding -- 2.1. Coherence strands in the external text -- 2.2. Coherence as a mental entity -- 2.2.1. The working memory buffer -- 2.2.2. Episodic memory -- 2.3. Coherence as grounding -- 2.3.1. Preamble -- 2.3.2. Cataphoric ('anticipatory') grounding -- 2.3.3 Anaphoric grounding -- 2.3.3.1. Preamble: Definite reference -- 2.3.3.2. Grounding to the speech situation -- 2.3.3.3. Grounding to generic-lexical knowledge -- 2.3.3.4. Grounding into the current text -- 2.4. The extreme bounds of coherence -- 3. Knowledge-driven vs. grammar-cued coherence -- 3.1. Preamble -- 3.2. Grammar as an automated discourse-processing mode.

4. Local vs. global coherence -- 5. Mechanisms of coherence -- 5.1. Preamble -- 5.2. Spatial coherence -- 5.2.1. Vocabulary-guided spatial coherence -- 5.2.2. Grammar-cued spatial coherence -- 5.3. Temporal coherence -- 5.3.1. Vocabulary-guided temporal coherence -- 5.3.2. Grammar-cued temporal coherence -- 5.3.2.1. Tense-aspect and temporal coherence -- 5.3.2.2. Temporal adverbial connectors -- 5.3.3.3. Temporal adverbial clauses -- 5.4. Thematic coherence -- 5.4.1. Vocabulary-guided action coherence -- 5.4.2. Grammar-cued thematic coherence -- 5.5. Referential Coherence -- 5.5.1. Grammar vs. lexicon, local vs. global -- 5.5.2. Text frequency, markedness and cognitive default -- 6. The grammar of referential coherence as processing cues -- 6.1. Preliminaries -- 6.2. Cognitive model -- 6.2.1. General operations -- 6.3. Some general principles -- 7. Discussion -- 7.1. Local vs. global coherence -- 7.2. Vocabulary-guided vs. grammar-cued coherence -- 7.3. Why is anaphoric grounding so necessary? -- 7.4. Grammar, episodic storage and working memory: The thematic flexibility of episodic representation -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The negotiation of coherence within conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Flexible coherence through recipient design -- 3. Coherence through sequential organization -- 4. Narrative: coherence across extended stretches of talk -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- How readers construct situation models for stories: The role of syntactic cues and causal inferences -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A theoretical framework for discourse comprehension -- 3. Grammar as mental processing instructions: Givón (1989) and a fragment completion experiment by Gernsbacher and Shroyer (1989) -- 4. Causal reasoning in story understanding: Trabasso and van den Broek(1985) -- 5. Macrostructures and summaries: Kintsch (1976).

6. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Aspectsof coherence in written language: a psychological perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Coherence in text -- 3. Coherent mental structures: propositions -- 3.1 Preliminaries -- 3.2 Meaning and spatial prepositions -- 3.3 Multiple quantification in context -- 4. Coherent mental structures: Scenario-mapping and focus theory (SMF) -- 4.1 Scenario mapping and focus theory -- 4.2 Expressions as process-controllers -- 5. Top-down influences on selective processing -- 6. Discussion: The notion of coherence and satisfactory comprehension -- 6.1 Processes supporting linguistic coherence -- 6.2 Coherence from other sources -- 7. Conclusions -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Explanatory coherence in understanding and talking about events -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Coherence: A subjective concept -- 1.2. Is local means of coherence necessary and sufficient for understanding discourse? -- 1.3. Causal coherence -- 1.4. Using goal/plans to achieve coherence in narrative discourse -- 2. A study on the judgment of coherence -- 2.1. Preamble -- 2.2. Coherence and causal link -- 2.3. Representing causal relations -- 3. Prediction of coherence ratings by structural properties -- 4. Motivational inferences during reading -- 5. Prediction of coherence judgments by motivational inferences made in talking aloud -- 6. General discussion -- REFERENCES -- Improving coherence in written communication -- 1. Preamble -- 2. Writers often produce incoherent texts -- 3. Spoken communication is typically more successful than written communication -- 4. Writers must form mental representations when producing and revising their texts -- 5. Feedback helps writers more accurately build their mental representations -- 6. Minimal feedback improves coherence in written communication -- 7. Perspective taking improves coherence in written communication.

NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Coherence in collaboration: Some examples from conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A spontaneous completion -- 3. The collaborative theory -- 4. Phases in grounding a contribution -- 5. Grounding a question -- 6. Collaborating on sentences -- 7. Collaborating on contributions -- 8. Virtual completions -- 9. "Extra" moves in a completion -- 10. Structure and function in the grounding process: Continuations -- 11. Relating language, cognition, and social interaction -- 12. Processes of collaboration -- 13. Memory -- 13. Conclusion -- REFERENCES.