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Discourse Comprehension

Discourse Comprehension is the cognitive process of constructing coherent meaning from connected linguistic units beyond the sentence level, distinguished from local comprehension by its focus on global text structure, pragmatic inference, and the integration of ideas across sentences within spoken or written discourse.

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Strategies of Discourse Comprehension

John J. Staczek, Teun A. van Dijk, Walter Kintsch · Modern Language Journal · 1985 · 5.5K citations

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<b>Mental models</b> : Towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness. By Philip N. Johnson-Laird (Cognitive science series, 6.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. 528. $25.00.

Marilyn Ford · Language · 1985 · 4.5K citations

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The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension: A construction-integration model.

Walter Kintsch · Psychological Review · 1988 · 4.3K citations

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Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse

Barbara J. Grosz, Candace L. Sidner · Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) · 1986 · 2.6K citations · Full text

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Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse

Jeanette Κ. Gundel, Nancy Hedberg, Ron Zacharski · Language · 1993 · 2K citations

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  1. AC
    Arthur C. Graesser

    University of Memphis, United States

    17 publications · 3.5K citations

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  2. TA
    Teun A. van Dijk

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    16 publications · 6.2K citations

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  3. CA
    Charles A. Perfetti

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    13 publications · 1.6K citations

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  4. TS
    Ted Sanders

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    14 publications · 1.6K citations

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  5. PC
    Peter C. Gordon

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    11 publications · 1.6K citations

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    30 h-index

    66 publications

    7.5K citations

  2. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    28 h-index

    63 publications

    5.5K citations

  3. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    25 h-index

    69 publications

    4.3K citations

  4. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    21 h-index

    39 publications

    6.9K citations

  5. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    17 h-index

    40 publications

    2.4K citations

  6. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    17 h-index

    19 publications

    2.2K citations

  7. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    16 h-index

    25 publications

    3.6K citations

  8. University of Memphis

    Memphis, United States

    16 h-index

    33 publications

    4.5K citations

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  1. Discourse Processes

    DP · 100 publications · 7.8K citations

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  2. Journal of Memory and Language

    52 publications · 7.6K citations

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  3. Journal of Pragmatics

    61 publications · 5.4K citations

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  5. Language

    26 publications · 16K citations

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