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Direct linkTrabasso, Tom; Wiley, Jennifer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
A theory of how readers monitor concerns of characters and make causal inferences during reading is presented. The focus is on the reader's understanding of what characters do when goals either succeed or fail. Knowledge of goal processes enable coherent understanding to be achieved when characters change goal plans and pursue new courses of…
Descriptors: Inferences, Discourse Analysis, Sentences, Long Term Memory
Maes, Alfons; Arts, Anja; Noordman, Leo – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
This article investigates the effect of 2 language-in-use factors on the introduction and maintenance of referents in instructive discourse. These factors, implemented as conditions in an instructive production task, were the assumed visual identity for the reader of the objects or referents to be referred to in the instructions (visually same vs.…
Descriptors: Identification, Speech Acts, Reading Comprehension, Discourse Modes
