Discourse Comprehension: Essays in Honor of Walter Kintsch

by Weaver, III; Charles A.

• ISBN13: 9780805815344
• ISBN10: 0805815341
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume is derived from presentations given at a conference hosted in Boulder, Colorado in honor of the 60th birthday of Walter Kintsch. Though the contents of the talks, and thus the chapters, varied widely, all had one thing in common -- they were inspired to some degree by the work of Walter Kintsch. When making plans for an edited book centered around this conference, the editors had a primary goal: to acknowledge the wide variety of researchers and research areas Kintsch had influenced. As a consequence, one of the more unusual elements of this volume is the diversity of the contributors. Researchers from six different countries contributed chapters to this book which is loosely organized around three main thrusts of Kintsch's work: * text-based representations that explain how meaning in a text is constructed, * situation models which represent what the text is about rather than what a text literally says, and * the construction-integration model, Kintsch's most recent work in discourse comprehension.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Walter Kintsch: a Brief Biography	p. 1
References	p. 8
Where Do Propositions Come From?	p. 11
Conclusion	p. 32
Acknowledgments	p. 33
a General Model of Classification and Memory Applied to Discourse Processing	p. 35
References	p. 47
Primacy and Recency in the Chunking Model	p. 49
References	p. 62
Understanding Concepts in Activity	p. 65
Conclusions	p. 91
References	p. 94
the Minimalist Hypothesis: Directions for Research	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 112
References	p. 112
Inference Generation and the Construction of Situation Models	p. 117
References	p. 136
Activating Knowledge of Fictional Characters' Emotional States	p. 141
References	p. 154
Understanding the Special Mnemonic Characteristic of Fairy Tales	p. 157
References	p. 173
Comprehension Monitoring: Extensions of the Kintsch and Van Dijk Model	p. 177
Conclusions	p. 190
References	p. 192
Top-Down Effects in a Bottom-Up Model of Narrative Comprehension and Recall	p. 195
References	p. 208
Simulating Recall and Recognition by Using Kintsch's Construction-Integration Model	p. 211
Conclusion	p. 227
References	p. 231
Priming of Inference Concepts in the Construction-Integration Model	p. 233
References	p. 243
Memory and Its Graeculi: Metamemory and Control in Extended Memory Systems	p. 245
References	p. 255
the Acquisition of Knowledge from Text and Example Situations: an Extension to the Construction-Integration Model	p. 257
Conclusions	p. 280
References	p. 282
the Role of Presentational Structures in Understanding and Solving Mathematical Word Problems	p. 285
References	p. 303
Beyond Discourse: Applications of the Construction-Integration Model	p. 307
References	p. 334
Capping the Construction-Integration Model of Discourse Comprehension	p. 337
References	p. 357
Construction-Integration Theory and Clinical Reasoning	p. 359
Conclusions	p. 378
References	p. 379
on Macrostructures, Mental Models, and Other Inventions: a Brief Personal History of the Kintsch-Van Dijk Theory	p. 383
References	p. 407
Epilogue	p. 411
Author Index	p. 413
Subject Index	p. 423
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