ABSTRACT
The framework as described in the previous chapter derives from the various analyses on readers’ classifications of texts, descriptions of their usage and the experimental investigation of their models for one text type. While it represents an intuitively coherent categorization of the issues involved in the reading process, it cannot at this stage lay claim to anything more. The obvious questions to ask now are: is this a valid way of considering behaviour? and what purpose does such a framework serve? The present chapter concentrates on answering these questions.
