Kintsch introduced the notion of a situation model in order to
a. create a local semantic network specific to the current situation.
b. reduce the syntactic complexity to the minimum level necessary to reduce processing load.
c. use language as a set of instructions for constructing a mental representation of the situation.
d. filter out irrelevant details to focus on global integration.
C
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