Models of Understanding Text

ISBN-13: 9780805818482 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 376 str.

Britton; Bruce K. Britton; Arthur C. Graesser

Opis

This collection covers the major models of comprehension in the field of text and discourse. It also focuses on deep levels of understanding tather than language codes, syntax or other levels of text analysis.

Recenzje

"As an introduction to various models of discourse understanding, this book is without peer...an ideal choice for use in an upper-level or graduate-level seminar in text comprehension, or for a researcher wanting a current overview of the field....I know of no other book which provides such breadth of theoretical coverage. For those new to the field, or those interested in a cogent summary of current work in discourse understanding, this book will be most valuable."
—Contemporary Psychology

"This book has the merit of bringing together a set of diverse approaches to text understanding. The focus is on models that have developed sophisticated quantitative methods to describe how propositional information from texts is memorized and recalled. These models offer interesting simulations of human encoding and retrieval of text information..."
—American Journal of Psychology

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. A.C. Graesser, S.S. Swamer, W.B. Baggett, M.A. Sell, New Models of Deep Comprehension. A. Turner, B.K. Britton, P. Andraessen, D. McCutchen, A Predication Semantics Model of Text Comprehension and Recall. S.R. Goldman, S. Varma, N. Coté, Extending Capacity-Constrained Construction Integration: Toward "Smarter" and Flexible Models of Text Comprehension. S. Mannes, M. St. George, Effects of Prior Knowledge on Text Comprehension: A Simple Modeling Approach. C.R. Fletcher, P. van den Broek, E.J. Arthur, A Model of Narrative Comprehension and Recall. P. van den Broek, K. Risden, C.R. Fletcher, R. Thurlow, A "Landscape" View of Reading: Fluctuating Patterns of Activation and the Construction of a Stable Memory Representation. D.L. Long, M.R. Seely, B.J. Oppy, J.M. Golding, The Role of Inferential Processing in Reading Ability. R.W. Gibbs, Jr., Metaphor as a Constraint on Text Understanding. R.A. Zwaan, Toward a Model of Literary Comprehension. N.L. Stein, R.S. Bernas, D.J. Calicchia, A. Wright, Understanding and Resolving Arguments: The Dynamics of Negotiation. M.A. Gernsbacher, The Structure-Building Framework: What It Is, What It Might Also Be, and Why. A. Garnham, J. Oakhill, The Mental Models Theory of Language Comprehension. A.C. Graesser, B.K. Britton, Five Metaphors for Text Understanding.

O autorze

Bruce K. Britton, Arthur C. Graesser