Discourse Processing (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Discourse Processing 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 8
Preface 6
PART 1: TEXT STRUCTURE 12
Chapter 1. Plans and Goals in Understanding Episodes 13
Chapter 2. What Makes a Good Story? Towards the Production of Conversational Narratives 27
Chapter 3. Text Divisions and Story Grammars 40
Chapter 4. Children's Knowledge of Social Action: Effects on Comprehension and Recall of Simple Stories 53
Chapter 5. Levels of Functioning in Semantic Memory and Levels of Comprehension of Texts 64
Chapter 6. That's Important but is it Interesting? Two Factors in Text Processing 74
Chapter 7. Expectancy Structures in Prose Reading 87
Chapter 8. How do Different Readers Learn with Different Text Organizations? 98
PART 2: COHERENCE 110
Chapter 9. Towards a Processing Account of Reference 111
Chapter 10. Towards a Model o f Macrostructure Search 122
Chapter 11. Accept ability of Story Continuations 135
Chapter 12. Semantic Discontinuities as Text Production Strategies 148
PART 3: INFERENCE 162
Chapter 13. How Do You Fill in this xxx? On some Interpretation Processes 163
Chapter 14. Inference Processes in Discourse Comprehension Measured by Sentence Reading Times 177
Chapter 15. Answering Questions from Text: A Process Model 183
PART 4: MEMORY 196
Chapter 16. Memory for Text 197
Chapter 17. Knowledge Updating in Text Processing 216
Chapter 18. Retrieval Cues and the Remembering of Prose: A Review 230
Chapter 19. Working Memory and Contextual Processing in Reading 250
Chapter 20. Age, Reading Ability, and Semantic Integration: An Information Processing Model 262
Chapter 21. The Modality Effect on Text Processing as a Function of Organization 274
Chapter 22. Remembering what You Said versus Remembering what You Wrote: Children's Recall of their own Oral and Written Narratives 280
Chapter 23. Effects of Verbal and Pictorial Context Cues on Free Recall and Clustering of Text Themes 290
PART 5: ATTENTION AND CONTROL 302
Chapter 24. Allocation of Attention During Reading 303
Chapter 25. Intentional Learning in Text Processing 317
Chapter 26. Recall and Flexibility of Linguistic Processing 325
Chapter 27. Activation and Restructuring of Prior Knowledge and their Effects on Text Processing 336
Chapter 28. Metacognitive Regulation of Text Processing: Aspects and Problems Concerning the Relation between Self-Statements and Actual Performance 350
Chapter 29. Metacognitive Variables in the Learning of Written Text 363
PART 6: GOAL PERSPECTIVES 372
Chapter 30. The Role of Problem Orientations and Goals in Text Comprehension and Recall 373
Chapter 31. Changing the Reader's Perspective 390
Chapter 32. Influences of Titles on the Recall of Instructional Texts 403
Chapter 33. The Impact of Prior Knowledge on Accessibility and Availability of Information from Prose 411
PART 7: INSTRUCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS 422
Chapter 34. Pictures as Prose-Learning Devices 423
Chapter 35. Instructional Variables in Text Processing 456
Chapter 36. Concrete Analogies as Aids in Learning from Text 473
Chapter 37. Subjective versus Objective Pre-Information as a Determinant of Students' Choices of Instructional Texts and their Subsequent Learning Therefrom 483
Chapter 38. Effects of Elaboration on Recall of Texts 493
Chapter 39. Argument in Text and Reading Process 506
Chapter 40. Self-Regulated versus Teacher-Provided Sequencing of Information in Learning from Text 520
Chapter 41. Text Processing: A Comparison of Reading and Listening 532
Chapter 42. The Influence of Within- and Between-Sentence Variables on the Comprehension of Newspaper Articles by Two Reader Groups 538
Chapter 43. Development and Evaluation of a Text Mapping Strategy 547
Chapter 44. Quest for an "A": A Case Study of a University Student's Text Processing 566
PART 8: EXTENSIONS 574
Chapter 45. Processing Dream Texts 575
Chapter 46. Comprehending the Discourse of Poetry 581
ABSTRACTS OF THE REMAINING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TEXT PROCESSING IN FRIBOURG 1981 594
AUTHOR INDEX 604
SUBJECT INDEX 616
ADDRESSES OF CONTRIBUTORS 620