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role of protagonist perspective in text comprehension
- Date Issued:
- 1988
- Summary:
- The present study examined two models of text comprehension. The first was the propositional representation proposed by Kintsch and van Dijk (1978), in which coherence is determined by coreference and consistency. The second model was a mental model which incorporates readers' world knowledge, goals, and plans in the comprehension of text. In Experiment 1, subjects were told to assume the protagonist perspective while reading a series of short passages. Results showed that when instructed to do so, subjects formed an image that includes information regarding protagonist location. When this location information was violated, a slowdown in reading time of a target sentence occurred. Experiment 2 showed that when subjects are not instructed to assume the protagonist perspective, they apparently are not aware of inconsistencies in location information.
Title: | The role of protagonist perspective in text comprehension. |
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Name(s): |
Baldwin, Stella Bocholis. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor O'Brien, Edward J., Thesis advisor |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1988 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 55 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | The present study examined two models of text comprehension. The first was the propositional representation proposed by Kintsch and van Dijk (1978), in which coherence is determined by coreference and consistency. The second model was a mental model which incorporates readers' world knowledge, goals, and plans in the comprehension of text. In Experiment 1, subjects were told to assume the protagonist perspective while reading a series of short passages. Results showed that when instructed to do so, subjects formed an image that includes information regarding protagonist location. When this location information was violated, a slowdown in reading time of a target sentence occurred. Experiment 2 showed that when subjects are not instructed to assume the protagonist perspective, they apparently are not aware of inconsistencies in location information. | |
Identifier: | 14457 (digitool), FADT14457 (IID), fau:11256 (fedora) | |
Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
Note(s): |
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1988. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science |
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Subject(s): |
Reading comprehension Reading, Psychology of |
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Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |