Text, topos, and mental models
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11273709 |
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| Authors | Robert J Jarvella (a University of Montreal , Canada, corresponding author), Lita Lundquist (0009-0002-0910-0211, c Copenhagen Business School , Dalgas have 15, Frederiksberg , DK‐2000 , Denmark), Jukka Hyönä (0000-0002-5950-3361, d University of Turku , Finland) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-28 |
| Publication date | 1995-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Processes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01638539509544929 |
| OpenAlex | W1980712249 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
We examine how predications in text affect the inferences which are generated and used during reading. Inferences of the so‐called “topos” type, that is, the more votes X gets, the more likely X will win (Anscombre, 1989; Ducrot, 1988) were explored in the reading of texts describing competitions which involved two main participants. The texts contained ambiguous definite noun phrases, as in “In the first round, John Smith got almost/only 500 votes. The Irish lawyer was leading/trailing.” When both sentences in such a sequence were oriented toward a winning or a losing outcome, the ambiguous noun phrases were interpreted as being coreferential with the individual just named, the text was judged as being clearer and more comprehensible, and reading was more rapid. In contrast, when the sentences were oriented in opposite directions, the ambiguous noun phrases were interpreted as referring to the other major participant in a contest, the text was rated as being less clear and less comprehensible, and reading was less rapid. We examine models of reasoning which might be used to resolve such ambiguities in text
Affect (linguistics · Contrast (vision · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Noun phrase · Reading (process · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Information Retrieval and Search Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Language Comprehension as Structure Building
Inference during reading.
Mechanisms that improve referential access
Ups and Downs in Scalar Inferences
The Mental Representation of Discourse in a Focussed Memory System
Psychological Studies of Quantifiers
Scales in the Interpretation of Words, Sentences, and Texts
Free Word Order in Finnish
On definiteness
Free Word Order in Finnish
Mental Models as Representations of Discourse and Text
Comprehension Processes in Reading
Thematic subjecthood and cognitive constraints on discourse structure
Les modificateurs déréalisants
| Highly cited | No |
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