Playing with Mental Models

In this chapter, we summarise our findings, and discuss if and how van Dijk’s mental-model based theory of discourse in combination with meaning attribution to other forms of behaviour can explain the workings of a situation comedy like The Office . Further, a number of topics are suggested which might benefit from a mental-model based approach to the inference of the meaning of (communicative) situations. These include both the study of humorous discourse in particular and of discourse and othe