College 11 Flashcards
What is referential processes?
who and what are the sentences about and how we determine if different sentences refer to the same entities
what is coherence-building process?
how the events in the sentence relate to one another
what is the goal of discourse processing?
to build a representation of the situation that the text describes
what is an anaphor
any expression that is used to refer back to someting that already had been itnroduced
What are 5 aspects of stories?
time, space, protagornists, motivation and causation
what is the iconicity principle?
readers expect the order in which events are descirbed to correspond in to the order in which they took place
What is the spotlight metaphor?
attention follows the main character and spills over to nearby objects
What kinds of causation are there?
high, medium and low
what is bridging?
causal relationships between sentences and referential inferences
What is explanatory inferences
you cant rely on the story, you need background information
what is elaborative inferences
adding more detail of nuance to the event described
what is predictive inferences
what will happen next?
wat is reinstatement inferences?
knowledge that was described or presented much earlier in the text
what is important to inferencing?
bridging, elaborative and predictive
What is proposition?
the core meaning of a sentence as expressed by its linguistic content
What is presupposition?
an implicit assumption that is signalled by specific linguistic expressions and whose existence or truth is taken for granted as background information
What is accommodation?
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
What is accomodation?
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
What is reverse cohesion effect?
the finding that under some circumstances readers retain more information from a text while it is not made explicit
