This article aims to analyze the short story Venha ver o pôr do sol, by Lygia Fagundes Telles, in order understand how compositional aspects of narrative contribute meaning text. Based on researches authors like Saraiva, Eagleton, Salvatore D’Onofrio, Leite and Dino Del Pino, this study proposes a relation between literature representation, presents concept and, from its aspects, analyzes story...

This study examines factors that influence readers’ cognitive processing (i.e., inference generation) and the development of a mental representation text: comprehension skill working memory (WM). Elementary students (N = 61) participated in causal questioning conditions with narrative texts to examine text- knowledge-based inferences generated when probed during versus after reading. Recalls we...

We investigated how readers strategically infer context-appropriate information on the basis of the presented text and their world knowledge during passage reading. In the main experimental condition, participants were instructed to read short passages and to predict the development of the situation described in each passage during reading. To accomplish this task, we assumed that participants ...

Text materials such as those introduced by McKoon and Ratcliff (1986) have been repeatedly used to shape a theoretical understanding of inference processes. Recent resultsofKeefeandMcDaniel (1993)with thesematerialswere intriguingwith respect to the generation and persistence of predictive and bridging inferences. To account for these data, the authors developed a formal model within Kintsch’s ...

The logical ordering of events facilitates the processing of narratives. If readers are going to perform an inference in order to make easier their assimilation of an upcoming text, it seems likely that they will perform an inference closely related to the causal coherence of the narrative. Therefore, an appropriate approach to this issue should determine the contexts in which readers perform e...

Variability of semantic expression is a fundamental phenomenon of a natural language where same meaning can be expressed by different texts. Natural Language Processing applications like Question Answering, Summarization, Information Retrieval systems etc. often demand a generic framework to capture major semantic inferences in order to deal with the challenges created by this phenomenon. Textu...

Classical studies on enactment have highlighted the beneficial effects of gestures performed in the encoding phase on memory for words and sentences, for both adults and children. In the present investigation, we focused on the role of enactment for learning from scientific texts among primary-school children. We assumed that enactment would favor the construction of a mental model of the text,...

Iarg-AnCora aims to annotate the implicit arguments of deverbal nominalizations in AnCora corpus. This corpus will be the basis for systems of automatic semantic role labeling based on machine learning techniques. Semantic analyzers are essential components in the current applications of language technologies, in which it is important to obtain a deeper understanding of the text to make inferen...

Aging may be associated with an increase in generalized text processing, particularly in adults older than 75 years. The current study examined text comprehension in young, young-old, and old-old adults. Experiment 1 included a comprehension measure (product) and Experiment 2 examined inferences generated during reading (process). Comprehension scores were lowest in old-old adults. Generalized ...