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What Do We Know about the World?
4.2. Reception or Recognition of Paraphrase in Daily and Weekly
Newspapers
In the second part of the research, slight differences in the under-
standing of modified phrases were revealed between the two groups of
examinees. The results represented show differences between examinees
only on the basis of their age not on their level of education or cultural
awareness. The older examinees have 45.8 % correct answers in relation
to attempting to answer 68 % of the time, while younger examinees have
49.8 % of correct answers in relation to attempting to answer 62 % of the
time. See Figure 4.
Figure 4: Attempted and accurate reconstructions of headlines by
both groups of examinees
More detailed analysis or individual results showed differences in
recognizing paraphrases due to the respondents’ general and cultur-
al awareness (literacy, general culturedness, cultural immersion). The
questionnaires revealed that 23 % of the student population regularly
follows cultural events,5 and that 57 % of them do so occasionally. This
5 Cultural events include visiting theatre, cinema, museums and so on.
4.2. Reception or Recognition of Paraphrase in Daily and Weekly
Newspapers
In the second part of the research, slight differences in the under-
standing of modified phrases were revealed between the two groups of
examinees. The results represented show differences between examinees
only on the basis of their age not on their level of education or cultural
awareness. The older examinees have 45.8 % correct answers in relation
to attempting to answer 68 % of the time, while younger examinees have
49.8 % of correct answers in relation to attempting to answer 62 % of the
time. See Figure 4.
Figure 4: Attempted and accurate reconstructions of headlines by
both groups of examinees
More detailed analysis or individual results showed differences in
recognizing paraphrases due to the respondents’ general and cultur-
al awareness (literacy, general culturedness, cultural immersion). The
questionnaires revealed that 23 % of the student population regularly
follows cultural events,5 and that 57 % of them do so occasionally. This
5 Cultural events include visiting theatre, cinema, museums and so on.
