A SKETCHBOOK OF PRODUCTION PROBLEMS

This paper sets out five problems of language production that dominate current research in the area. Four of them are problems that the formulator must solve in order to carry out its functions. Consideration of these problems has spawned different theoretical perspectives on and a variety of empirical findings about how the formulator works, and these are briefly surveyed. The fifth problem is metatheoretical, and concerns the proper domain of production theory. © 1991 Plenum Publishing Corporation.