New glossary article!
Have you heard of this term before?
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Interesting to know there’s a name for that 
Actually had a discussion about something similar with someone recently where we talked about the importance of considering the background and potential thoughts of a person you’re talking to when in a job interview or another situation with different power dynamics and I was basically explaining parts of this to them because this is one of the things I just kinda do instinctively at times when I write texts or talk to people I guess?
On a slightly related note, I’m not sure the article really made it clear how top-down and bottom-up processing work and what exactly the difference is, like especially for the bottom-up approach I feel like it’s not quite clear how exactly the author would construct the text exactly while taking that into consideration? Or is bottom-up processing really just taking the words at hand without yet assigning a deeper meaning to them?
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Thanks for reading! I’m glad it could be useful to you!
You make a good point. I should make separate glossary pages for top-down and bottom-up processing to explain them a little better. I hope I can do them justice here a little bit:
Actually, both types of processing happen in your brain rather than by the writer (which I should probably clear up).
Botton-Up Processing is when your brain has to comprehend and imagine the words on the page. It’s your brain asking itself, ‘What is this text actually saying?’. So it’s on a language comprehension level. You might assign things like connotations to words as well, so there is some level of deeper meaning. However, it’s only for when you interpret the things that the writer has explicitly said. If they haven’t said it but it’s still part of your text-world, it’s not bottom-up processing.
Top-Down Processing is when your brain asks itself, ‘what do I already know that could help me understand this better?’. This happens when the writer hasn’t explicitly said something. So you need to use problem solving to fill in the gaps or provide extra context!
I hope that makes it clearer!
Can I ask you for some feedback? Is there any way I can make my website more user-friendly to make it easier for people to ask questions like this directly on the glossary posts? 
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Thank you! That explanation makes things a lot clearer :>
Hmm I’m not sure, you technically do offer a reply/comment functionality on the page so it’s accessible as is
The only thing I could think of is being able to idk, specifically highlight which part one is confused about? But am not sure if one can actually configure it that way
Like I’m pretty sure there used to be some site I read stories on where readers could pretty much highlight and leave comments for any line that stood out to them but am not sure where that was ^^’
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That’s an amazing idea! I’ll look into it!
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