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The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic representation as the speech producer had in mind. In producing and comprehending a text, be it spoken or written, the interlocutors collaborate towards coherence. They negotiate for a common ground of shared topicality, reference and thematic structure - thus toward a similar mental rep

Discourse analysis --- Congresses --- Cohesion (Linguistics) --- Coherence (Linguistics) --- Cohesiveness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics

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Cohesion (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Coherence (Linguistics) --- Cohesiveness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Pragmatics

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Cohesion (Linguistics) --- English language --- Discourse analysis --- Coherence (Linguistics) --- Cohesiveness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Germanic languages --- English language - Discourse analysis

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All adult speakers in Western cultures have life stories argues Charlotte Linde, and the ways in which these life stories are formed and exchanged with others have a powerful effect on all of us. Life stories express our sense of self, who we are and how we got that way. According to Linde, we also use these stories to show that our lives can be understood as coherent, and to assert or negotiate group membership. These life stories take part in the highest level of social constructions, since they are built on cultural assumptions about what is expected in a life, what the norms for a successful life are, and what common or special belief systems are necessary to establish coherence. The life story, illuminated by this engrossing study, is a form of everyday discourse which has not previously been precisely defined or studied. It is an oral, discontinuous unit, consisting of stories which are retold in a variety of forms over a long period of time, and which may be revised and changed as the speaker comes to drop old meanings and add new ones to parts of the life story. The life story is a particularly rich and important area for study, because it represents a crossroads of linguistic structure and social practice. Linde's analysis is of importance to linguistics, as well as having broader implications for anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

Cohesion (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Coherence (Linguistics) --- Cohesiveness (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Linguistics --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Pragmatics

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This chapter addresses how concepts of narrative and narration have been used in theories of cultural trauma. My point of departure is an article by Wulf Kansteiner and Harald Weilnböck, where they criticize the concept of cultural trauma or what they call the paradigm of "deconstructive trauma discourse." They argue that this paradigm not only misuses the concept of psychological trauma by adapting it to a cultural realm, but also refuses to recognize the significance of narratives in trauma therapy. I will challenge their criticism by taking a closer look at how the concept of cultural traum

Psycholinguistics --- Fiction --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis --- Narrative inquiry (Research method) --- Cohesion (Linguistics) --- Psychological aspects --- Coherence (Linguistics) --- Cohesiveness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Narrative analysis (Research method) --- Narrative research (Research method) --- Narratological inquiry (Research method) --- Research --- Psychological aspects. --- Discourse analysis - Psychological aspects