ABSTRACT
So far we have been primarily concerned with topics much broader than reading-like language, comprehension, and memory-or with narrow aspects of reading-like letter or word identification. In this chapter, the spotlight can finally be directed on reading itself, on the specific act, when something meaningful is in front of a reader's eyes, and the reader is looking at it for a purpose. What does it mean to read? What can be said to be happening? And what do readers need to know?
