Psycholinguistic models of text comprehension in Russian and foreign literature

Agliullina Camilla Gilfanovna, Chulkina Nina Leonidovna

This article deals with different psycholinguistic models of comprehension process in Russian and foreign literature from the inception of the discipline to the recently presented models. The comprehension process from the psycholinguistic point of view happens on the intersection of physiological, physical, psychical, cognitive, linguistic processes, so the existing models of comprehension as well have completely different structural and theoretical basis. Nevertheless, being focused on the same object, they allow to examine thoroughly enough existing theoretical and empirical data concerning psycholinguistic process of comprehension.

Keywords:Comprehension process, comprehension model, comprehension process modelling, psycholinguistic model of comprehension, mental representations, projections of the text comprehension, levels of text comprehension, RI-val model, dynamic generative framework of event comprehension.