Walter Kintsch and Teun A. van Dijk, using the term situation model (in their book Strategies of Discourse Comprehension, 1983), showed the relevance of mental models for the production and comprehension of discourse.
Walter Kintsch和Teun A. van Dijk使用情境模型（situation model，在他們1983年的著作《Strategies of Discourse Comprehension》裡），展示了心智模型的相關性于認知和演講生產的領悟。