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Sanford, Anthony J. and Simon C. Garrod. 1981. Understanding written language: Explorations of comprehension beyond the sentence. J. Wiley. xiv + 224 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
background information | focus | foregrounding | frame | goal | script | written language, comprehension of

Annotation

Psychological approach to the processes by which the written word comes to be understood by the reader. A comprehensive theory of these processes is proposed in which due attention is paid to the textual mode, the nature of background assumptions (as represented in frames, scripts, scenarios), focus and foregrounding, the dynamic aspects of understanding, goals, etc..