Readers generate situation models representing described events, but the nature of these representations may differ depending on the reading goals. We assessed whether instructions to pay attention to different situational dimensions affect how individuals structure their situation models (Exp. 1) and how they update these models when situations change (Exp. 2). In Experiment 1, participants re...

The subject of the article is to determine degree scientific and technical text connectedness using statistical calculations. aim investigation study possibilities coherence fluctuations in relative frequencies keywords paragraphs lexical thematic unity texts. task develop a method for determining at set level; test developed methods on collection documents. used are analysis computational expe...

Our purpose is to propose and discuss the latest version of an integrated method for dialogue analysis, annotation and evaluation., using a set of different pragmatic parameters. The annotation scheme Pr.A.Ti.D was built up on task-oriented dialogues. Dialogues are part of the CLIPS corpus of spoken Italian, which consists of spoken material stratified as regard as the diatopic variation. A des...

Do Chinese speakers think about time vertically because they use vertical spatial metaphors to express time? Inconsistent findings have been reported even when the same paradigms were used. The present study examined participants’ performance on a temporal judgment task while holding language constant but varying their lifetime and immediate reading experience of horizontal and vertical texts. ...