On Macrostructures, Mental Models, and Other Inventions: A Brief Personal History of the Kintsch-van Dijk Theory

It is not my habit to write scholarly articles with the pronoun “I.” Instead, rather traditionally, I tend to hide myself and my weaknesses behind the authorial “we.” Retracing and evaluating my unique, decade-long (1973–1983) collaboration with Walter Kintsch, however, requires a more personal style, in which the deictic pronoun “I” refers, of course, to me, and “we” to Walter and me.