The Role of Major Referents and Sentence Topics in the Construction of Passage Macrostructure.

Kieras, David E.

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Publication Date: 1981

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The Role of Major Referents and Sentence Topics in the Construction of Passage Macrostructure.

Kieras, David E.

Discourse Processes, v4 n1 p1-15 Jan-Mar 1981

Demonstrates that (1) in a theory of comprehension, global coherence must refer not just to the availability of a macrostructure, but also to its ease of construction; and (2) the topic-comment assignment at the sentence level can be an important influence on the reader's perception of the passage topic. (FL)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Research, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension

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Language: English

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