Wnioskowanie lingwistyczne a proces recepcji tekstu narracyjnego
Linguistic inference and the process of narrative text reception

Summary/Abstract: In the article theoretical considerations are presented that are supported by results of an empirical study of the ways of including linguistic inference processes into the process of understanding the text (e. g. Thomdyke, 1976). Also the discussion has been referred to that has been going on in the literature. It concerns the question of inborn character of the logic of the mind (e. g. Braine, 1994) vs. the ability to construe mental models of the meaning of situations described in the text (Johnson-Laird, 1983). The kinds of linguistic inference most often presented in the literature are shown. and the function of linguistic knowledge and knowledge concerning the world that limit the process of forming potentially possible inferences, are presented. Also empirical studies are shown that illustrate the fact that insufficiencies of the ability to infer make it difficult to construe a coherent mental representation of the text of the story.

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