Frontmatter -- Cooperating with written texts: Towards a science of the text. Issues and overview / Stein, Dieter -- Part I. Writing, literacy, and comprehension: psycholinguistic aspects -- On the relationship between writing system, written language, and text processing / Coulmas, Florian -- Pause and intonation contours in written and oral discourse / Keseling, Gisbert -- Aspects of writing development in argumentative texts / Augst, Gerhard -- Psycholinguistic processes in the comprehension of written texts / Garrod, Simon -- Coherence and coordination in written text: Reading time studies / Rickheit, Gert / Günther, Udo / Sichelschmidt, Lorenz -- Levels of language comprehension and systems of information-processing / Engelkamp, Johannes -- Part II. Developmental aspects: the evolution of written texts -- The pragmatics of medieval texts / Bergner, Heinz -- The impact of sudden literacy on text comprehensibility: Mohawk / Mithun, Marianne -- Scientific texts and deictic structures / Ehlich, Konrad -- Immediacy and displacement in consciousness and language / Chafe, Wallace -- Part III. Literary texts: inferring meaning(s) -- Fictional conversation and its pragmatic status / Mao, LuMing R. -- Presupposition and pragmatic inference in a literary text / Aristar-Dry, Helen -- How to cope with dramatic texts including avant-garde playscripts / Grabes, Herbert -- The pragmatics of literary texts / Bredella, Lothar -- “Deep structure signals” in fiction / Schulz, Volker -- The pragmatics of poetic discourse / Byron Anderson, Janet -- A pragmatic role for inserted clauses in literary texts / Forget, Danielle -- Part IV. Pragmatics and comprehension of individual text types -- Teaching conscientious resistance to cooperation with text: The role of pragmatics in critical thinking / Burt, Susan Meredith -- From private writing to public oration: The case of Puritan wills. Cognitive discourse analysis applied to the study of genre change / Bach, Ulrich -- Parallelism in advertising copy / Bublitz, Wolfram -- Notice is hereby given to hide ulterior motives / Hickey, Leo -- Renarration: Oral L1 and L2 narrations as bases of written narratives / Zimmermann, Rüdiger -- Strategies in text production and text comprehension: A new perspective / Wodak, Ruth -- The axiological structure of discourse / Krzeszowski, Tomasz P. -- Part V. At the interface of linguistics and pragmatics: individual linguistic structures -- On the (In)dependence of syntax and pragmatics: Evidence from the postposition -rá in Persian / Dabir-Moghaddam, Mohammad -- VP inversion and aspect in written texts / Ward, Gregory L. / Birner, Betty J. -- Scope in discourse: Pragmatics or syntax? / Rhodes, Richard A. -- Part VI. Computational modeling of text comprehension -- ‘Parsing’ procedures for stories / Shen, Yeshayahu -- Convergent evidence for a set of coherence relations / Dahlgren, Kathleen -- Text pragmatics and computational modeling / Rothkegel, Annely -- Integrating knowledge sources for the generation of referential expressions / Block, Russell -- Subject index -- Backmatterweiterlesen