The Role of Coherence Relations and Their Linguistic Markers in Text Processing.
When readers process a text, they establish a coherent representation by means of coherence relations. This article focuses on the cognitive status of these relations. In an experiment using reading, verification, and free recall tasks, 2 crucial aspects of the structure of expository texts were inv...
| Publicado en: | Discourse Processes Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 37 - 61 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2000
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