Publications

Publication details [#49044]

Lentz, Leo, Ted Sanders and Judith Kamalski. 2008. Coherence Marking, Prior Knowledge, and Comprehension of Informative and Persuasive Texts: Sorting Things Out. Discourse Processes 45 (4-5) : 323–345.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | information processing | knowledge | meaning, comprehension of | persuading

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study on the operationalization of the variables of coherence marking, prior knowledge, and text comprehension, argues that linguistic coherence marking interacts with prior knowledge in informative, yet not in persuasive texts.