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Discourse comprehension.

A C Graesser1, K K Millis, R A Zwaan

  • 1Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152, USA.

Annual Review of Psychology
|January 1, 1997
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Discourse processing research examines how readers build mental representations from text, including surface code, textbase, and situation models. This study explores meaning construction during adult reading comprehension of various written materials.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Discourse Analysis

Background:

  • Discourse processing involves multiple levels of mental representation.
  • These include surface code, propositional textbase, situation model, context, and genre.
  • Psychological models explain how these representations are built during comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Focuses on meaning representations constructed during adult reading of written text.
  • Examines comprehension of literary stories, technical expository text, and textoids.
  • Investigates psychological models of discourse comprehension.

Main Methods:

  • Review of psychological models of discourse processing.
  • Analysis of representation construction during reading.

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  • Focus on specific comprehension mechanisms.

    • Main Results:

    • Models account for referent identification (e.g., pronoun resolution).
    • Models explain text segment connection and coherence establishment (local and global).
    • Models address knowledge-based inference encoding.

    Conclusions:

    • Understanding discourse comprehension requires examining multiple representational levels.
    • Psychological models provide frameworks for explaining complex reading processes.
    • Further research refines models of meaning construction in reading.