01141nas a2200121   4500008004100000245005500041210005500096300001200151490000700163520077600170100002000946856005300966       1994                        eng d00aEffect of Genre Expectations on Text Comprehension0 aEffect of Genre Expectations on Text Comprehension  a920-3300 v203 a<p>This article investigates whether expectations about discourse genre influence the process and products of text comprehension. Ss read texts either with a literary story or with a news story as the purported genre. Subsequently, they verified statements pertaining to the texts. Two experiments demonstrated that Ss reading under a literary perspective had longer reading times, better memory for surface information, and a poorer memory for situational information than those reading under a news perspective. Regression analyses of reading times produced findings that were consistent with the memory data. The results support the notion that readers differentially allocate their processing resources according to their expectations about the genre of a text.</p>
1 aZwaan, Rolf, A.  uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/zh-hans/node/1310