We acquire a lot of information about the world through texts, which can be categorized at
the broadest level into two primary genres: narratives and exposition. Stories and essays …

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

How people assign mental states to others and how they represent or conceptualize such
states in the first place are topics of interest to philosophy of mind, developmental …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

Cognitive approaches to emotional disorders are now common in clinical psychology, but
abnormalities in cognitive processing (with which this book is concerned) are still not well …

The goal of this chapter is to provide the foundation toward develo** a more
comprehensive model of reading comprehension. To this end, seven prominent …

My goal in writing this book has been to convey the principles and issues of
psycholinguistics in a straightforward and accessible manner. The field, although principally …

Textual Explorations General Editors-Mick Short, Lancaster UniversityElena Semino,
Lancaster UniversityThe focus of this series is on the stylistic analysis of literary and non …

Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues
by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering conventional aesthetic …

Investigated, in 2 experiments, whether readers experience comprehension difficulty when
they read texts in which local coherence is maintained but global incoherence is introduced …