Abstract
One of the central problems in psycholinguistics is to explain how people put together the information from the separate parts of a discourse to form an integrated representation of its content.1 The content of a discourse is one aspect of its meaning — other aspects include its pragmatic and rhetorical significance. The problem, therefore, is one about the way the meaning of discourse is computed. A theory about the computation of meaning depends on an account of the meanings that discourses can have — an account psycholinguistics might have hoped to borrow from linguistics, but which they were never able to (see the Introduction to this volume for a discussion of why linguistic accounts of meaning have had little impact in psycholinguistics).
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Garnham, A. (1989). Integrating Information in Text Comprehension: The Interpretation of Anaphoric Noun Phrases. In: Carlson, G.N., Tanenhaus, M.K. (eds) Linguistic Structure in Language Processing. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2729-2_10
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