Three Information Functions of Headings: A Test of the SARA Theory of Signaling.
Text signals include a wide variety of writing devices that emphasize specific content within a text, the organization of a text, or both (Lorch, 1989; Meyer, 1975). Signals presumably evolved as a means for an author to guide readers' processing of a text by making the text structure and important...
| Publicado en: | Discourse Processes Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 139 - 161 |
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