Part 1 : Introduction. The concept of inferences in discourse comprehension / Gert Rickheit, Wolfgang Schnotz and Hans Strohner -- Part 2 : Representational aspects. The generation of knowledge-based inferences during narrative comprehension / Arthur C. Graesser and Leslie F. Clark ; Social knowledge and inference processing in text comprehension / Leslie F. Clark ; Spatial representations and inference processes in memory for text / Monika Wagener and Karl F. Wender ; Modality-specific representation systems and inference : task-dependent activation processes in the motor memory / Hubert D. Zimmer and Johannes Engelkamp -- Part 3 : Procedural aspects. Incremental pragmatic interpretation versus occasional inferencing during fluent reading / Simon C. Garrod ; Aspects of pronoun interpretation : evaluation of search formulations of inference / Anthony J. Sanford ; The immediacy of inferences in the understanding of pronouns / Wietsje Vonk -- Part 4 : Contextual aspects. Structural inferences in reading and listening / Aemilian Hron [and others] ; Influences of modality, text difficulty and processing control on inferences in text processing / Jochen Müsseler, Gert Rickheit and Hans Strohner ; Casual and temporal inferences and their effects on memory for discourse / Manfred Thüring, Ilka Grossmann and Karl F. Wender ; Selectivity in drawing inferences / Wolfgang Schnotz.