ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we add some considerations to existing theories of text, moving beyond the notions of text base and situation model to outline a theory of documents. The essential idea of this theory-actually a framework for a theory-is that the intelligent use of texts entails mental representations of specific texts, situations described in texts, and relations among texts. Our aim is to explain some of the ways this claim is correct and to show some of the features required of a richer model of text representation. As part of this effort, we first critically examine the important distinction between situations and texts.
