This paper will present the first results of an exploratory study on textual incoherence, focusing on two kinds of problems: (1) logical coherence problems due to incorrect use of connectives; (2) semantic coherence pro-blems and low informational efficiency due to inappropriate use of collocations or other problems connected to word selection. The cases are extracted from a corpus of short texts written by University students during acourse on academic writing in Italian. The paper will briefly discuss the effects of these phenomena on the interpretability of texts and observe possible correlations with problems of reading literacy occurring in the corpus.
Incoerenze testuali e problemi di combinazione lessicale nella produzione scritta di studenti universitari: primi rilievi e proposte esplicative
CICCOLONE, SIMONE
2012-01-01
Abstract
This paper will present the first results of an exploratory study on textual incoherence, focusing on two kinds of problems: (1) logical coherence problems due to incorrect use of connectives; (2) semantic coherence pro-blems and low informational efficiency due to inappropriate use of collocations or other problems connected to word selection. The cases are extracted from a corpus of short texts written by University students during acourse on academic writing in Italian. The paper will briefly discuss the effects of these phenomena on the interpretability of texts and observe possible correlations with problems of reading literacy occurring in the corpus.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
