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A-Z 1191ReferencesBeaugrande, R.A. de. 1980. Text, discourse and process: toward a multidisciplinary science oftexts. London.——1992. A new introduction to the study of text and discourse. London.Beaugrande, R. de and W.-U.Dressler. 1981. Introduction to text linguistics. London.Conte, M.E. et al. (eds) 1989. Text and discourse connectedness: proceedings of the conference onconnexity and coherence Urbino, July 16–21, 1984. Amsterdam.Dressler, W.U. (ed.) 1978. Current trends in text linguistics. Berlin.Petöfi, J.S. 1979–82. Text vs sentence. Hamburg.Van Dijk, T.A. 1990. The future of the field: discourse analysis in 1990. Text 10.133–56.coherencetext processingTerm denoting the cognitive activities involved in understanding, retaining, andremembering texts. Text processing is not a unilateral process of recording textualcontent, but rather an active, constructive activity that is directed (a) by the text (‘textdirected’ or ‘ascending’ processing), (b) by the reader’s background knowledge that isstored in schemata (‘schemadirected’ or ‘descending’ processing ( schema)), and (c)by the intention and interests of the reader as well as his/her assumptions about the writerand the situation. In the model of Kintsch and Van Dijk (1978), the cognitive(re)construction of the text takes place in cyclical processing phases on several levels,beginning with the construction of propositions on the basis of sentences, beyondlogically cohesive, coherent sequences of different hierarchical steps ( coherence), tothe semantic macrostructure, where the text material is, on the one hand, reduced andabbreviated on every level (e.g. through generalization) and, on the other hand, expandedby inferences 2 .ReferencesBurghardt, W. and K.Hölker (eds) 1979. Text processing/Textverarbeitung. Berlin.Halliday, M.A.K. 1977. Text as semantic choice in social contexts. In T.A.Van Dijk and J.S.Petöfi(eds), Grammars and descriptions. New York. 176–225.Just, M.A. and P.A.Carpenter (eds) 1977. Cognitive processes in comprehension. Hillsdale, NJ.Kintsch, W. and T.A.Van Dijk. 1978. Toward a model of text comprehension and production.PsychologR 85.363–94.Nilsson, L.G. (ed.) 1979. Memory processes. Hillsdale, NJ.Rickheit, G. and M.Bock (eds) 1983. Psycholinguistic studies in language processing. Berlin.Van Dijk, T.A. 1977. Text and context: explorations in the semantics and pragmatics of discourse.London.Van Dijk, T.A. and W.Kintsch. 1983. Strategies of discourse comprehension. Orlando, FL.