Opinion Piece: How People Structure Representations of Discourse

Mental models or situation include representations of people, but much the literature about such focuses on representation eventualities (events, states, and processes) (small-scale) situations. In well-known event-indexing model Zwaan, Langston, Graesser (1995), for example, protagonists are just one five dimensions which indexed. They not given any additional special status. Consideration longer narratives, ways in readers listeners relate to them, suggest that people have a more central status way we think texts, hence discourse representations, Indeed, considerations organised around (the of) characters. The paper develops idea centrality main characters by considering, among other things, information is presented novels, with L’Éducation Sentimentale Gustav Flaubert as case study. Conclusions also drawn role types text.