The authors describe a constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based
inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text. Readers …

This article reviews research on the use of situation models in language comprehension and
memory retrieval over the past 15 years. Situation models are integrated mental …

This chapter describes a general theory of comprehension. The theory of text
comprehension is a comprehension model in the sense, but it leaves room for problem …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

The analysis of cognitive processes in real time is one of the most methodologically difficult
tasks in all of psychology. This chapter summarizes in a convenient form the advantages …

In this book, Walter Kintsch presents a theory of human text comprehension and extends his
analysis to related areas. Comprehension is conceptualized as a two-stage process: first …

Most scholars have a number of dream projects in mind: topics they have always wanted to
investigate and write about, but for various reasons never did. I have many such unrealized …

First Published in 1990. This book presents a new, interdisciplinary theory of news in the
press. Against the background of developments in discourse analysis, it is argued that news …

A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory,
formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro) cognitive poetics has …

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …