During the comprehension of discourse, comprehenders

tation associated most closely with “deep ” understanding is the situation model or mental model of the text. Situa-tion models serve to integrate the information stated in a text with general information supplied by the reader’s world knowledge, and thus they “represent what the text is about, not the text itself ” (Glenberg, Meyer, & Lindem, 1987, p. 70). Many different aspects of a situation are hy-pothesized to be represented in situation models, for in-stance, causal, temporal, and spatial relations as well as the protagonists ’ goals, beliefs, and emotions (Zwaan