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macrostructure: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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Discourse processing

the global gist of a text, a hierarchy of summary propositions derived from the detailed propositions, which readers build and remember best.

In discourse processing, macrostructure refers to the global gist of a text, a hierarchy of summary propositions derived from the detailed propositions, which readers build and remember best. This meaning comes from Kintsch (1978) in Psychological Review.[1]

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propositional textbase1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct discourse6 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs hierarchy4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Kintsch, W., & van Dijk, T. A. (1978). Toward a model of text comprehension and production. Psychological Review, 85(5), 363-394. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.85.5.363

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