[...]... explanatory power of this model In Situation Models and Levels of Coherence, I attempt to propose an integrated view of the various theoretical approaches to discourse comprehension, and in particular of situation- model building, as evidenced by empirical findings and computational models My objective has been to arrive at an in-depth definition of the internal structure of situation models, and of the cognitive... Situation Models and Levels of Coherence, indicates where Professor Tapiero thinks the field is going The big issue, the issue that she has devoted her own research to as well as this book, is to specify and elaborate the nature and role of situation models in text comprehension This has been the central theme in discourse research during the last decade, not only of Tapiero’s research but of much of the... (or structure) of the situational level The main goal of the first part of this book is to present the internal objects that emerge from the literature and that I think are fundamental for defining the structure of the reader’s situation model In chapter 1, a description of the two main levels of representation (semantic and situational), within a referential and causal approach (i.e., coherence) , is... Processes and the Postulated “Internal Objects of Situation Models? 112 PART III: CONTRIBUTION OF READERS’ KNOWLEDGE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GLOBAL COHERENCE 115 5 Establishing Global Coherence: An Account of Readers’ 119 Naive Theories of Causality 5.1 Establishing Local and Global Coherence: The Main Hypotheses 119 5.2 The Causal Network Model as Representative of Readers’ Naive Theories of Causality... second generation of models, the latter emphasizes the bidirectional relations between the process of reading itself (online representation) and the result of the reading process (offline representation) This dynamic view of the comprehension process corresponds to the third generation of models Chapter 2, the core of the first part, is devoted to the main internal components of situation models described... The situation model would be built from structures and substructures that interact with real-world situations in terms of the coherence of the dimensions implied Regardless of the “structure” of the situation model postulated, several cognitive mechanisms underlie the elaboration of the reader’s mental representation In the second part of this book, I describe the main processes (i.e., automatic and. .. Thurlow, 1996) 26 2 Situation Models as Integrated Representations: What Kind of Model Does the Reader Build? 2.1 The Internal “Objects” of Situation Models 34 2.1.1 The Predicate-Argument Schema (Kinstch, 1988, 1998) 34 2.1.2 States, Events, and Actions Are the Core Elements of Situation Models (Molinari & Tapiero, in press; Tapiero, 1992; Zwaan, Langston, & Graesser, 1995) 40 2.1.3 Situation Models Result... Naive Theories of Causality 123 6 The Reader’s Mental Representation: Search for 137 Coherence or Passive Resonance? 6.1 Establishing Global Coherence: Situation Models as Retrieval Structures 140 PART IV: CONTRIBUTION OF THE READER’S KNOWLEDGE AND THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ASPECT OF SITUATION MODELS: IMPORTANCE OF CAUSALITY AND EMOTION 149 7 Causal Inferences in the Reading Comprehension 151 Process 7.1 The... establishment of this coherence to a greater or lesser extent What kind of mental representation does the reader build? How does the reader establish coherence or rather, levels of coherence? I assume that the reader’s mental representation is composed of related entities, and that only the relevance assigned by readers to define these relations allows for the “correct” interpretation of the text, and leads... of a suitable notation for mental images that would allow their use in computational models Linguists have provided psychology with workable notational schemas for words and sentences—it is easy to count words or describe their structural relations Not so for images at this point, with the consequence that psychologists build many models for words and few for images Situation Models and Levels of Coherence . alt="" SITUATION MODELS AND LEVELS OF COHERENCE Toward a Definition of Comprehension SITUATION MODELS AND LEVELS OF COHERENCE Toward a Definition of Comprehension Isabelle Tapiero University of. THE INTERNAL “OBJECTS” OF SITUATION MODELS 1 1 Theoretical and Empirical Evidence for Two Main Levels of Representation: Referential and Causal Coherence 3 2 Situation Models as Integrated Representations: What. trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tapiero, Isabelle. Situation models and levels of coherence