Abstract
An experiment was designed to examine the relation between expression and meaning in text memory. The concreteness of two texts were manipulated keeping their expressional forms almost the same. For analyzing recall protocols, two kinds of scoring were adopted. One is verbatim scoring which is considered to reflect the memory for expression. The other is semantic scoring which is considered to reflect the memory for meaning. Two main results were obtained: (1) The semantic concreteness of texts facilitated the memory for meaning, but not the memory for expression. (2) The memory for expression showed serial position effects in both cases of abstract and concrete texts, while the memory for meaning did not. These results were interpreted as showing that the memory for expression is independent of that for meaning in text memory.
