Constructing inferences and relations during text comprehension

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Text representation as an interface between language and its users 1
5. Section 1. A ccessibility in text and text processing
6. Accessibility theory 29
7. The influence of text cues on the allocation of attention during reading 89
8. Lexical access in text production 111
9. Section 2. Relational coherence in text and text processing
10. Semantic and Pragmatic relations and their intended effects 127
11. On the production of causal-contrastive although sentences in context 153
12. Beyond elaboration 181
13. Unstressed en /and as a marker of joint relevance 197
14. Argumentation, explanation and causality 231
15. Section 3. From text representation to knowledge representation
16. Constructing inferences and relations during text comprehension 249
17. Thinking about bodies of knowledge 273
18. Section 4. Segmentation in text and text representation
19. Conceptual and linguistic processes in text production 309
20. Subordination and discourse segmentation revisited, or 337
21. Subject index 359