Discourse Comprehension
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Discourse Comprehension

Essays in Honor of Walter Kintsch

  1. 440 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Discourse Comprehension

Essays in Honor of Walter Kintsch

About this book

This volume is derived from presentations given at a conference hosted in Boulder, Colorado in honor of the 60th birthday of Walter Kintsch. Though the contents of the talks, and thus the chapters, varied widely, all had one thing in common -- they were inspired to some degree by the work of Walter Kintsch. When making plans for an edited book centered around this conference, the editors had a primary goal: to acknowledge the wide variety of researchers and research areas Kintsch had influenced. As a consequence, one of the more unusual elements of this volume is the diversity of the contributors.

Researchers from six different countries contributed chapters to this book which is loosely organized around three main thrusts of Kintsch's work:
* text-based representations that explain how meaning in a text is constructed,
* situation models which represent what the text is about rather than what a text literally says, and
* the construction-integration model, Kintsch's most recent work in discourse comprehension.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Group Photo
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1. Walter Kintsch: A Brief Biography
  10. 2. Where do Propositions Come From?
  11. 3. A General Model of Classification and Memory Applied to Discourse Processing
  12. 4. Primacy and Recency in the Chunking Model
  13. 5. Understanding Concepts in Activity
  14. 6. The Minimalist Hypothesis: Directions for Research
  15. 7. Inference Generation and the Construction of Situation Models
  16. 8. Activating Knowledge of Fictional Characters’ Emotional States
  17. 9. Understanding the Special Mnemonic Characteristics of Fairy Tales
  18. 10. Comprehension Monitoring: Extensions of the Kintsch and van Dijk Model
  19. 11. Top -Down Effects in a Bottom-Up Model of Narrative Comprehension and Recall
  20. 12. Simulating Recall and Recognition by Using Kintsch’s Construction-Integration Model
  21. 13. Priming of Inference Concepts in the Construction-Integration Model
  22. 14. Memory and its Graeculi: Metamemory and Control in Extended Memory Systems
  23. 15. The Acquisition of Knowledge from Text and Example Situations: An Extension to the Construction-Integration Model
  24. 16. The Role of Presentational Structures in Understanding and Solving Mathematical Word Problems
  25. 17. Beyond Discourse: Applications of the Construction-Integration Model
  26. 18. CAPping the Construction-Integration Model of Discourse Comprehension
  27. 19. Construction-Integration Theory and Clinical Reasoning
  28. 20. On Macrostructures, Mental Models, and Other Inventions: A Brief Personal History of the Kintsch-van Dijk Theory
  29. Epilogue
  30. Author Index
  31. Subject Index