Publications

Publication details [#10621]

Dascal, Marcelo and Elda Weizman. 1987. Contextual exploitation of interpretation clues in text understanding: An integrated model. In Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertucelli-Papi, eds. The pragmatic perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference. John Benjamins. pp. 31–46.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

comprehension | contextualization | written language | written language, processing of

Annotation

What type of clues does a hearer/reader use to reach an interpretation of a discourse (i.e. a written text)? How do these clues guide the hearer/reader into the maze of contextual information available, and how can this maze be organized?