Processing math: 100%
64
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    2
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: not found
      • Article: not found

      Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension.

      , ,
      Psychological Review
      American Psychological Association (APA)

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          The authors describe a constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text. Readers potentially generate a rich variety of inferences when they construct a referential situation model of what the text is about. The proposed constructionist theory specifies that some, but not all, of this information is constructed under most conditions of comprehension. The distinctive assumptions of the constructionist theory embrace a principle of search (or effort) after meaning. According to this principle, readers attempt to construct a meaning representation that addresses the reader's goals, that is coherent at both local and global levels, and that explains why actions, events, and states are mentioned in the text. This study reviews empirical evidence that addresses this theory and contrasts it with alternative theoretical frameworks.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          Psychological Review
          Psychological Review
          American Psychological Association (APA)
          1939-1471
          0033-295X
          1994
          1994
          : 101
          : 3
          : 371-395
          Article
          10.1037/0033-295X.101.3.371
          7938337
          895460c4-3c8c-4788-999e-7d91f33b7fba
          © 1994
          History

          Comments

          Comment on this article

          scite_
          0
          0
          0
          0
          Smart Citations
          0
          0
          0
          0
          Citing PublicationsSupportingMentioningContrasting
          View Citations

          See how this article has been cited at scite.ai

          scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made.

          Similar content1,125

          Cited by405