Macrostructure
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Macrostructure may refer to:
- Macrostructure (sociology)Macrostructure (sociology)In sociology, macrostructures, often simply called 'structure', correspond to the overall organization of society, described at a rather large-scale level, featuring for instance social groups, organizations, institutions, nation-states and their respective properties and relations...
- Macrostructure (linguistics)Macrostructure (linguistics)In linguistics and discourse analysis, semantic macrostructures are the overall, global meanings of discourse, usually also described in terms of topic, gist, or upshot. These semantic macrostructures are typically expressed in for instance the headlines and lead of a news report, or the title and...
- Macrostructure (psychology)Macrostructure (psychology)In the psychology of discourse processing, it is assumed that language users typically have better memory for the macrostructures than for the microstructures of discourse: After some time we remember the overall topics or gist of a news report much better than its many details....