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Mekni Toujani, Marwa – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
One of the major aims of discourse-processing literature is to understand whether and when readers form discourse-level representations online. To test this, two word-by-word, self-paced reading experiments investigated the time course of integrating incoming information about the protagonist into the unfolding discourse-level representation in…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Native Language, Discourse Analysis, Reading Processes
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David, Dorit; Berman, Ruth A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study compares what we term information density in spoken versus written discourse by distinguishing between 2 broad classes of material in narrative texts: narrative information as conveyed through three types of propositional content--events, descriptions, and interpretations (Berman, 1997)--and ancillary information as conveyed by…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Personal Narratives, Distance Education, Comparative Analysis