Criteria of Understanding and Understandability

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. Preface VII
4. Chapter 1: Problems of Meaning
5. On the Difficulties of Using the Concept of a Dictionary – and the Impossibility of Not Using it 3
6. Inter- and Intraindividual Differences in Meaning 17
7. On the “Natural” Meaning of Acoustic Signals 29
8. The Latent Semantics of Verbal Association 56
9. The Meaning-Confining Function of the Adjective 70
10. Some Preliminary Remarks on Net-Linguistic Semantics 82
11. Chapter 2: Sentence Processing
12. Elective Decay of Meaning in Working Memory and the Process of Discourse Comprehension 101
13. Foci of Attention in Comprehension and Production of Sentences 119
14. Chapter 3: Text Processing
15. Person Description: Some Empirical Findings Concerning the Production and Reproduction of a Specific Text Type 137
16. On the Influence of Text Organization on Learning Outcomes 152
17. Inference Processes in Text Comprehension 182
18. Strategies of Repeated Text Processing 207
19. The Influence of Pictures on the Processing of Texts: Reading Time, Intelligibility, Recall, Aesthetic Effect, Need for Rereading 218
20. The Semantic Power of Verbal and Pictorial Parts of Situations 237
21. Criteria of Understanding and Understandability 259
22. Text, Signification, Models, and Correlates. Some Aspects of Text Comprehension and Text Interpretation 266
23. Author Index 299
24. Subject Index 303
25. Backmatter 307