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College 11 Flashcards

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What is referential processes?

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who and what are the sentences about and how we determine if different sentences refer to the same entities

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what is coherence-building process?

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how the events in the sentence relate to one another

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what is the goal of discourse processing?

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to build a representation of the situation that the text describes

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what is an anaphor

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any expression that is used to refer back to someting that already had been itnroduced

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What are 5 aspects of stories?

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time, space, protagornists, motivation and causation

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what is the iconicity principle?

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readers expect the order in which events are descirbed to correspond in to the order in which they took place

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What is the spotlight metaphor?

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attention follows the main character and spills over to nearby objects

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What kinds of causation are there?

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high, medium and low

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what is bridging?

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causal relationships between sentences and referential inferences

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What is explanatory inferences

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you cant rely on the story, you need background information

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what is elaborative inferences

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adding more detail of nuance to the event described

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what is predictive inferences

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what will happen next?

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wat is reinstatement inferences?

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knowledge that was described or presented much earlier in the text

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what is important to inferencing?

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bridging, elaborative and predictive

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What is proposition?

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the core meaning of a sentence as expressed by its linguistic content

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What is presupposition?

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an implicit assumption that is signalled by specific linguistic expressions and whose existence or truth is taken for granted as background information

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What is accommodation?

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the process of updating a mental model to include information that is presupposed by a speakers as evident by his use of specific presupposition triggering expressions

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What is accomodation?

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the process of updating a mental model to include information that is presupposed by a speaker as evident by his use of specific presupposition triggering expressions

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What is reverse cohesion effect?

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the finding that under some circumstances readers retain more information from a text while it is not made explicit

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