Sources of Coherence in Reading

<p>During the last 20 years, there has been an enormous amount of research examining sources of coherence in reading. A major tenet of this work has been the distinction between two major sources of coherence. "Text-based" sources of coherence are contained within the text itself -- use of headings to indicate aspects of a text's macrostructure; "reader-based" sources of coherence encompass the information and strategies that the reader brings to the comprehension process. Many early models of reading comprehension emphasized text-based sources of coherence as a way of understanding how a representation of the text is constructed in memory. However, during the last decade, there has been a clear shift of theoretical perspective away from viewing reading comprehension as a process of representing a text to viewing comprehension as a process of representing what a text is about. This has led to a greater emphasis on reader-based sources of coherence. The purpose of this book is to bring together the large body of evidence addressing the roles of text-based and reader-based sources of coherence in reading comprehension. The contributors present the current state of cognitive theory and research on comprehension of discourse.</p> <p><b>Contents: R.F. Lorch, Jr., E.J. O'Brien,</b> Introduction: Sources of Coherence in Reading. <b>K. Rayner, G.E. Raney, A. Pollatsek,</b> Eye Movements and Discourse Processing. <b>J.M. Keenan, T.M. Jennings,</b> The Role of Word-Based Priming in Inference Research. <b>W.K. Estes,</b> Response Processes in Cognitive Models. <b>A.W. Inhoff, C. Connine,</b> Perceptual Similarity and Salience in the Accessing of Lexical Meaning. <b>S.A. Duffy, A.F. Hundley, P.A. Baligian,</b> Inferencing Upside Down. <b>J.D. Murray,</b> Logical Connectives and Local Coherence. <b>J.M. Golding, K.M. Millis, J. Hauselt, S.A. Sego,</b> The Effect of Connectives and Causal Relatedness on Text Comprehension. <b>S. Dopkins, J. Nordlie,</b> Processes of Anaphor Resolution. <b>E.J. O'Brien,</b> Automatic Components of Discourse Comprehension. <b>E.N. Kamas, L.M. Reder,</b> The Role of Familiarity in Cognitive Processing. <b>C.R. Fletcher, S.T. Chrysler, P. van den Broek, J.A. Deaton, C.P. Bloom,</b> The Role of Co-Occurrence, Coreference, and Causality in the Coherence of Conjoined Sentences. <b>T. Trabasso, S. Suh, P. Payton, R. Jain,</b> Explanatory Inferences and Other Strategies During Comprehension and Their Effect on Recall. <b>M. Singer,</b> Causal Validation and Causal Comprehension. <b>J.E. Albrecht, E.J. O'Brien,</b> Goal Processing and the Maintenance of Global Coherence. <b>R.F. Lorch, Jr.,</b> Integration of Topic Information During Reading. <b>A.C. Graesser, E.L. Bertus, J.P. Magliano,</b> Inference Generation During the Comprehension of Narrative Text. <b>W. Kintsch, M. Franzke,</b> The Role of Background Knowledge in the Recall of a News Story. <b>C.M. Jones,</b> Construction of a Mental Model. <b>P. van den Broek, K. Risden, E. Husebye-Hartmann,</b> The Role of Readers' Standards for Coherence in the Generation of Inferences During Reading. <b>R.F. Lorch, Jr., M.A. Klusewitz, E.P. Lorch,</b> Distinctions Among Reading Situations.</p>