ABSTRACT
Text is printed or written material, usually longer than a sentence. A story is a particular, self-contained type of text, although a story in a psycholinguistic experiment might only be two sentences long. Discourse is the spoken
This chapter is about the higher level processes of comprehension. What happens after we have identified the words and built the syntactic structure of a sentence? How do we build up a representation of the meaning of the whole sentence, given the meanings of the individual words? How do we combine sentences to construct a representation of the whole conversation or text? And how do we use the meaning of what we have processed?
