REPRESENTATION OF NARRATIVE TEXTS: CONSTRUCTING INFERENCES DURING TEXT COMPREHENSION
REPRESENTATION OF NARRATIVE TEXTS: CONSTRUCTING INFERENCES DURING TEXT COMPREHENSION

Summary/Abstract: While understanding a text readers try to elaborate a mental representation of what they are reading. In this process they construct their own models of meaning for a text. The goal of this study is to try to describe some models of text comprehension. We analyzed and explore the processes that reflect the activities of the text users in comprehension: the mechanisms of inferences generation. Readers generate inferences that fill gaps in the main messages. They generate inferences that explain why the writer bothers to mention something that otherwise would be insignificant

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