ZUNINO, Gabriela M.; ABUSAMRA, Valeria    RAITER, Alejandro. INTERACTION BETWEEN WORLD KNOWLEGDE AND LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE COMPREHENSION OF CAUSAL AND CONTRACAUSAL RELATIONS: THE ROLE OF CONNECTIVES. []. , 25, 1, pp.15-34. ISSN 0120-338X.

The aim of this article is to study the role of world knowledge and linguistic -semantic- knowledge during the comprehension process of casual and contracasual relations. Our initial hypothesis: causal relations are easier to process than contracasual relations. Our specific objective: to verify this hypothesis in four conditions. Firstly, it was evaluated how people comprehend a casual or contracasual relation between two events that belong either to an "everyday" knowledge domain either to a scientific domain, over which the subjects do not have previous knowledge. Secondly, it was verified which role connectives with specific semantic content -causal and contracausal- take in those two texts types.

: causality; contracausality; world knowledge; connectives.

        · |     · |     · ( pdf )