- Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Wilbert Spooren
Radboud University Nijmegen, Dutch language and literature, Faculty Member
Chapter 1 Text representation as an interface between language and its users Ted Sanders Wilbert Spooren University of Utrecht/Free University, Amsterdam 1. From meaning to processes, from sentence to discourse The theme of this volume is... more
Chapter 1 Text representation as an interface between language and its users Ted Sanders Wilbert Spooren University of Utrecht/Free University, Amsterdam 1. From meaning to processes, from sentence to discourse The theme of this volume is text representation, or ...
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KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Perspective, subjectivity, and modality from a cognitive linguistic point of view (1997). Pagina-navigatie: Main. Title, Perspective, subjectivity, and modality from a cognitive linguistic... more
KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Perspective, subjectivity, and modality from a cognitive linguistic point of view (1997). Pagina-navigatie: Main. Title, Perspective, subjectivity, and modality from a cognitive linguistic point of view. ...
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ABSTRACT In this study, the concept of framing is applied in order to show differences in the conception of crime events in the genre of news texts across socio-cultural contexts. Three aspects of framing at the thematic, lexical and... more
ABSTRACT In this study, the concept of framing is applied in order to show differences in the conception of crime events in the genre of news texts across socio-cultural contexts. Three aspects of framing at the thematic, lexical and syntactic level are defined: occurrence, marked description and prominence and, accordingly, a corpus of one hundred crime-news articles in Dutch and Iranian national newspapers is analyzed. Taking a systematic and replicable approach, it was found that crime-news narratives in the two countries frame crime and crime-related events in different ways with regard to the representation of participants, actions and circumstantial elements. The implication of these different framing patterns is explained in terms of different socio-cultural contexts and discussed with regard to the discourse culture of journalism. The study has implications for further exploration of the interdependence of discourse, context and cognition.
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In this paper we explore a relationship, reported earlier in Bekker and Spooren (1999), between reversal and coherence relations. In that paper it was suggested that reversed order relatio ns have an perspectivizing effect on the interpr... more
In this paper we explore a relationship, reported earlier in Bekker and Spooren (1999), between reversal and coherence relations. In that paper it was suggested that reversed order relatio ns have an perspectivizing effect on the interpr etation of the text. Per spectivizat ion is ...
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Abstract. In this paper we explore the possibility of using automatic techniques to analyse the use of backward causal connectives in large Dutch newspaper corpora. With the help of two techniques, Thematic Text Analysis and Latent... more
Abstract. In this paper we explore the possibility of using automatic techniques to analyse the use of backward causal connectives in large Dutch newspaper corpora. With the help of two techniques, Thematic Text Analysis and Latent Semantic Analysis, the contexts of more than 14,000 connectives were studied. The method of analysis is described. It is found that differences that have been suggested in the literature via hand-based analyses between these type of connectives (for instance on dimensions like subjectivity, change in ...
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... The role of interest and text structure in professional reading Wilbert Spooren Discourse Studies Group, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Monique Mulder ... Sanders (1992, Chapter 4) conducted such a study with respect to the... more
... The role of interest and text structure in professional reading Wilbert Spooren Discourse Studies Group, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Monique Mulder ... Sanders (1992, Chapter 4) conducted such a study with respect to the effects of text structure on text processing. ...
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Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST; Mann and Thompson 1988) is an ele-gant and much used model for the analysis of coherence relations in dis-course. It is one of the first approaches to systematically distinguish between object versus... more
Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST; Mann and Thompson 1988) is an ele-gant and much used model for the analysis of coherence relations in dis-course. It is one of the first approaches to systematically distinguish between object versus subject oriented coherence relations, ...
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Causal categories in discourseConverging evidence from language use Ted Sanders and Wilbert Spooren 1. Connective use provides a window on conceptual categorization The linguistic study of causality in discourse has predominantly focused... more
Causal categories in discourseConverging evidence from language use Ted Sanders and Wilbert Spooren 1. Connective use provides a window on conceptual categorization The linguistic study of causality in discourse has predominantly focused on the analysis of causal ...
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Ten handbooks of journalism most-used in Dutch and Iranian (applied) universities were content-analyzed and compared for their instructions on (crime) newswriting and assumptions behind the given instructions. While Dutch handbooks... more
Ten handbooks of journalism most-used in Dutch and Iranian (applied) universities were content-analyzed and compared for their instructions on (crime) newswriting and assumptions behind the given instructions. While Dutch handbooks consider ‘informing’ the optimal function of journalism and news, Iranian handbooks put emphasis on ‘increasing awareness’. Consequently, Dutch handbooks consider news as event and value information on facts, while Iranian handbooks aim for reporting the truth and consider news as on-going process. Specifically, as Iranian journalism handbooks value flexibility and creativity, they view storytelling style in news reports as the preferred journalistic genre and approach crime news as a special genre which should fulfill an educative function.
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