Download or read book Discourse Representation and Text Processing written by Garnham Oakhill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interrelated topics of discourse representation and text processing between them comprise a substantial part of comtemporary psycholinguistics, not to mention the related disciplines in which they are studied. The papers that follow are by no means intended to give an overview of this cast research field. Rather, they present some of the most recent research on selected problems within it. Our own prediction is to study discourse representation and text processing from the perspective of mental models theory (Garnham, 1987; Johnson-Laird, 1983). The mental models theory.