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Publication details [#5211]

Johnson-Laird, Philip N. 1981. Comprehension as the construction of mental models. In Longuet-Higgins, H. Christopher, John Lyons and David A. Broadbent, eds. The psychological mechanismus of language: A joint symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy, held on 11 and 12 March 1981. The Royal Society and the British Academy. pp. 139–160.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

comprehension | mental construct

Annotation

Presentation of a theory of language understanding, and of supporting evidence for it. The fundamental hypothesis is that discourse is sometimes represented in a form akin to that of perceived or imagined events. This results in a two-stage model.