Have We Been Searching for Meaning in All the Wrong Places? Defining the"Search After Meaning"Principle in Comprehension.
The last decade of research in text processing has been marked by a debate between opposing views of comprehension: One side emphasizes discourse processing from the bottom-up, the other from the top-down. A central focus of the debate has been the principle of"search after meaning,"posited by the t...
| Publicado en: | Discourse Processes Vol. 39; no. 2/3; pp. 279 - 299 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2005
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