1. Preface; 2. Text representation as an interface between language and its users (by Sanders, Ted); 3. Section 1. A ccessibility in text and text processing; 4. Accessibility theory: An overview (by Ariel, Mira); 5. The influence of text cues on the allocation of attention during reading (by Gaddy, Michelle L.); 6. Lexical access in text production: On the role of salience in metaphor resonance (by Giora, Rachel); 7. Section 2. Relational coherence in text and text processing; 8. Semantic and Pragmatic relations and their intended effects (by Knott, Alistair); 9. On the production of causal-contrastive although sentences in context (by Noordman, Leo); 10. Beyond elaboration: The interaction of relations and focus in coherent text (by Knott, Alistair); 11. Unstressed en /and as a marker of joint relevance (by Pander Maat, Henk); 12. Argumentation, explanation and causality: An exploration of current linguistic approaches to textual relations (by Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca); 13. Section 3. From text representation to knowledge representation; 14. Constructing inferences and relations during text comprehension (by Graesser, Arthur C.); 15. Thinking about bodies of knowledge: Tests of a model for predicting thoughts (by Britton, Bruce K.); 16. Section 4. Segmentation in text and text representation; 17. Conceptual and linguistic processes in text production: Interactive or autonomous? (by Schilperoord, Joost); 18. Subordination and discourse segmentation revisited, or: Why matrix clauses may be more dependent than complements (by Verhagen, Arie); 19. Subject index