Under the Tumtum Tree : From nonsense to sense, a study in non-automatic comprehension.
Title:
Under the Tumtum Tree : From nonsense to sense, a study in non-automatic comprehension.
Author:
Dolitsky, Marlene.
ISBN:
9789027280053
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (127 pages)
Series:
Pragmatics & Beyond
Contents:
UNDER THE TUMTUM TREE From Nonsense to Sense, A Study in Nonautomatic Comprehension -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- 1. NONSENSE -- 1.1. Gobbledegook -- 1.2. Semantic contradiction -- 1.3. Metalinguistic contradiction -- 1.4. Rule-governed other-worldliness -- 1.5. Nonsense and absurdity -- 1.6. The surrealists and their nonsense -- 1.7. Conclusion -- 2. THE COMPREHENSION OF NONSENSE -- 2.1. Carroll's "Jabberwocky" and neologisms -- 2.2. Method -- 2.3. Results -- 2.3.1. The coded homonym -- 2.3.2. The prelinguistic level of comprehension -- 2.3.3. Metaphor and simile -- 2.3.4. Modalization and generalization -- 2.3.5. Self-enhancing texts -- 2.4. Discussion -- 3. NONSENSE AND WORD MEANING -- 3.1. Method -- 3.2. Results -- 3.2.2. Frames -- 3.2.3. Phonetic comprehension strategies -- 3.2.4. Semantic association -- 3.2.5. Onomatopeia -- 3.3. Discussion -- 4. CHILDREN'S COMPREHENSION OF NONSENSE -- 4.1. Method -- 4.2. A global study -- 4.3. Word meaning -- 4.3. Pictures -- 4.4. Discussion -- 5. THE UNKNOWN LANGUAGE -- 5.1. Method -- 5.2. Results -- 5.3. Further work with unknown language -- 5.3.1. Results -- 5.3.2. Discussion -- 5.4. Further work with unknown language: "fate is unfair" and "The mouse's tale" -- 5.4.1. Results -- 5.4.2. Discussion -- 6. NONSENSE IN OUR DAILY LIVES -- 6.1. Nonsense in science fiction -- 6.2. Daily nonsense -- 6.3. Advertising nonsense -- 7. NONSENSE - CONCLUSION -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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