Do readers make inferences about conversational topics?
| Autor: | Elizabeth J. Mulligan, R. Brooke Lea, Patrick A. Kayser, Jerome L. Myers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Decision Making Inference Recognition Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition Linguistics Semantics Comprehension Random Allocation Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Reading Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Text processing Reading (process) Humans Conversation Verbal comprehension Psychology Sentence media_common Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Memory & Cognition. 30:945-957 |
| ISSN: | 1532-5946 0090-502X |
| DOI: | 10.3758/bf03195779 |
| Popis: | When we read that two protagonists in a story chatted together for a couple of minutes, do we draw inferences about the topic of the conversation on the basis of information presented earlier in the text? Participants read passages in which protagonists part and later reunite; the passages ended with a sentence either that implied conversation or did not. In Experiment 1, participants' continuation sentences indicated that inferences about the topic of conversation were drawn. Recognition probe data in Experiment 2 provided more immediate evidence of such inferences. Experiment 3 addressed a possible confound in Experiment 2 and again provided evidence that readers inferred the continuation of the conversation. In Experiments 4 and 5, we investigated the effect of having the targeted conversational topic be a secret that should not be shared between the protagonists. The results are discussed in terms of the collaboration between passive, memory-based text processing and schema-driven comprehension processes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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