Discourse comprehension and memory Flashcards
Local structure
the relationship among the individual sentences
Reference
Relating current objects with those in the past
Pronomial (he/she/it)
Demonstrative (this/that)
Comparative (same/similar/different)
Substitution
replaced one word with another
Ellipsis
referring to an earlier word without using an explicit term
Lexical
using the same or similar word
Reiteration
Synonymy
Hyponymy
Conjunction
using conjunctions to link phrases/sentences (e.g., and, but, so, because, yet, or)
Anaphoric reference
relating a current item (anaphor) with a previous item (antecedent)
Cataphoric reference
relating a current item (referring sentence) with an upcoming item (referent sentence)
Direct matching
the given information directly matches an antecedent - a matching on CONCEPTS, not WORDS
Briding
the given information matches inferred information
Global discourse structure
Event schema - a mental structure of known information
Characteristics:
-Contains knowledge about events
-Gained through experience
-Has the most important characteristics of the event
-Specifies the expected arrangement
-Guides our recognition and understanding of situations
When we can’t recognize a scheme, _________ and _______ is poor.
comprehension and memory for the discourse
Bransford and Johnson
Comprehension and recall was much better if you have the topic
Discourse Memory
when we read or hear discourse, we store that information at three levels
Surface representation
Propositional representation
Situational Model
Surface representation in Discourse Memory
contains the exact words of the discourse
held in the WM just long enough for us to understand the sentence
