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Sanford, Anthony J. and Simon C. Garrod. 1985. The role of background knowledge in psychological accounts of text comprehension. In Allwood, Jens S. and Erland Hjelmquist, eds. Foregrounding background. Doxa. pp. 223–234.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

background information | text, comprehension of

Annotation

S. and G. discuss experimental approaches to the problem of when and how knowledge is used in text comprehension, how the amount of knowledge available at any time is kept within reasonable bounds, and how the structure of text sorts out which knowledge is to be rendered is readily accessible.