Inferences in Text Processing
Published on 1. November 1985
335 pages
978-0-08-086683-3 (ISBN)
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This volume critically evaluates the present state of research in the domain of inferences in text processing and indicates new areas of research.The book is structured around the following theoretical aspects: - The representational aspect is concerned with the cognitive structure produced by the processed text, e.g. the social, spatial, and motor characteristics of world knowledge. - The procedural aspect investigates the time relationships on forming inferences, e.g. the point of time at which referential relations are constructed. - The contextual aspect reflects the dependence of inferences on the communicative embedding of text processing, e.g. on factors of modality and instruction.
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Gert Rickheit | Hans Strohner
Inferences in Text Processing
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11/1985
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Content
- Front Cover
- Inferences in Text Processing
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Concept of Inference in Discourse Comprehension
- Part II: Representational Aspects
- Chapter 1. The Generation of Knowledge - Based Inferences during Narrative Comprehension
- Chapter 2. Social Knowledge and Inference Processing in Text Comprehension
- Chapter 3. Spatial Representations and Inference Processes in Memory for Text
- Chapter 4. Modality - Specific Representation Systems and Inference: Task - Dependent Activation Processes in the Motor Memory
- Part III: Procedural Aspects
- Chapter 1. Incremental Pragmatic Interpretation versus Occasional Inferencing during Fluent Reading
- Chapter 2. Aspects of Pronoun Interpretation: Evaluation of Search Formulations of Inference
- Chapter 3. The Immediacy of Inferences in the Understanding of Pronouns
- Part IV: Contextual Aspects
- Chapter 1. Structural Inferences in Reading and Listening
- Chapter 2. Influences of Modality, Text Difficulty, and Processing Control on Inferences in Text Processing
- Chapter 3. Causal and Temporal Inferences and their Effects on Memory for Discourse
- Chapter 4. Selectivity in Drawing Inferences
- Author Index
- Subject Index
