ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on recall of discourse. Our story starts innocuously enough with the broad orientation described by van Dijk and Kintsch (1983):

The well-structured, multilevel, coherent text base that is the result of the comprehension process quite naturally functions as an efficient retrieval system so that just reading or listening to a text assures a respectable level of recall. Of course, this does not mean that it would be impossible to achieve even better recall for discourse as a function of special memory encoding procedures.

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