BACKGROUND Story grammar, which provides the theoreti-cal framework for this study, is
one of many currently held theories of the cognitive repre-sentation of narrative texts. 2 The …

In a recent review of the story understanding literature, Tom Trabasso and I (Stein &
Trabasso, 1982a) described some of the strengths and weaknesses of current story …

Publisher Summary One of the powerful research tools developed in the past decade for the
study of comprehension is the use of story grammars to analyze the structure of texts and to …

A number of current theories of story understanding are based on the idea of a mentally
embodied story grammar. Recent discussions of the adequacy of such theories have been …

Several cognitive psychologists have proposed that people use story schemata to guide
comprehension and recall. Using Stein and Glenn's (1979) story grammar, the story recall …

Researchers are finding story gram mar a useful tool in studying reading comprehension.
Whaley (1981) de scribes four story grammars currently used, noting that each is" a set of …

Much of the recent use of stories as a vehicle for the study of comprehension and recall has
centered around the story grammar approach (Mandler & Johnson, 1977; Rumelhart, 1975; …

Beaugrande's concept of the relationship between limitations of human memory and notions
of story structure is questioned. Then story grammar is briefly examined along several …

This paper is devoted to the presentation of a story grammar approach to comprehension.
The development of a grammar represents an attempt to describe the higher order cognitive …

Clarifies the nature of story schemata and raises criticisms of JB Black and R. Wilensky's
(1979) evaluation of story grammars regarding their failure to (1) bring important …