Schematic knowledge deviation: delving into the depths of reader’s cognitive pathways

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to show how readers' underlying network of prototypical schematic expectations might be activated at different levels to address schematic/cognitive challenges. When these levels of detail are activated, a cognitive defamiliarization process occurs as a result of schematic deviation. With varying degrees of under-/over-specification, this sort of cognitive deviation raises up certain levels of schematic instantiation