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Publication details [#3624]

Garnham, Alan, Jane Oakhill and Philip N. Johnson-Laird. 1982. Referential continuity and the coherence of discourse. Cognition 11 : 29–46.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | discourse, comprehension of | reference | story grammar

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

A report of two experiments on the role of referential continuity in understanding discourse. The results are discussed in relation to theories of story grammar, textual micro-structure, and mental models of discourse.