TY  - THES
AB  - The thesis in hand addresses the comprehension and representation of verbal utterances in which particular object features are negated.
In the theoretical part, to begin with, linguistic approaches to describing the structure of negative verbal expressions are reviewed. After that, the discussion focuses on procedural aspects by providing an outline of pertinent findings and current approaches to text comprehension in cognitive science. At that, emphasis is given to the question of the mental representation of negated concepts.
In the empirical part, several experiments on the comprehension of verbal negatives are presented. Using a stepwise reading and verification task, processing latencies for noun phrases which were appended by affirmative or negated attributes ("peeled bananas" vs. "unpeeled bananas"), and verification scores for positive or negative properties associated with the noun phrases ("white" vs. "not white") were measured. In two further experiments, the mental representation of negative attributes in verbal instructions ("choose a clock, namely, not the small one") was studied by contrasting affirmative, negative, and combined expressions of different structure ("not the small one but the large one"). The results are consistent with the view that comprehension involves the construction of diverse representations which relate both to the states of affairs in question and to the verbal expression.
DA  - 2005
KW  - Negation , Attribut , Sprachverarbeitung (Psycholinguistik) , Mentales Lexikon , Textverstehen , Wissensrepräsentation , Semantik , Bedeutung , Adjektiv , Comprehension , Representation , Semantics , Adjective , Negatives
LA  - ger
PY  - 2005
TI  - Die Realität des Ungesagten : Rezeption und Repräsentation von Attribut-Negation
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:361-6433
Y2  - 2024-11-21T19:35:12
ER  -