Book

ABSTRACT

The second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of discourse processes, highlighting the subject’s interdisciplinary foundations and bringing together established and emergent scholars to provide a dynamic roadmap of the evolution of the field.

This new edition reflects several of the enormous changes in the world since the publication of the first edition—changes in modes of communication and an increased urgency to understand how people comprehend and trust information. The contents of this volume attempt to address fundamental questions about what we should now be thinking about reading, listening, talking, and writing. The chapters collected here represent a wide range of empirical methods currently available: lab or field experiments, with a range of measures, from quantitative to qualitative; observational studies, including classrooms or organizational communication; corpus analyses; conversation analysis; computational modeling; and linguistic analyses. The chapters also draw attention to the explosion of contextually rich and computationally intensive data analysis tools which have changed the research landscape, along with more contemporary measures of people’s discourse use, from eye-tracking to video analysis tools to brain scans. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes, Second edition is the ideal resource for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in a variety of disciplines, including discourse analysis, conversation analysis, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Discourse processes evolving

Michael F. Schober, David N. Rapp & M. Anne Britt

Part I. Overviews

Reading comprehension theories: A view from the top down

Panayiota Kendeou & Edward J. O’Brien

Theories and approaches to the study of conversation and interactive discourse

William S. Horton

Studying discourse processes in institutional contexts

Adrian Bangerter & Joep Cornellisen

Part II. Research Methods for Studying Discourse Processes: State of the Art and Challenges

Research Methods: Conversation analysis

Saul Albert

Research Methods: The study of language processing in human conversation Sarah Brown-Schmidt

Research Methods: Big data approaches to study discourse processes

Michael Jones & Melody Dye

Research Methods: Online measures of text processing

Johanna K. Kaakinen

Research Methods: Neuroscientific methods to study discourse processes

Christopher A. Kurby

Part III. Topical Reviews

The role of sourcing in discourse comprehension

Ivar Bråten, Marc Stadtler, & Ladislao Salmerón

Discourse updating: Acquiring and revising knowledge through discourse

Tobias Richter & Murray Singer

Discourse processing in technology-mediated environments

Darren Gergle

Discourse and expertise: The challenge of mutual understanding between experts and laypeople

Rainer Bromme & Regina Jucks

Discourse processing and development through the adult lifespan

Elizabeth A. Stine-Morrow & Gabriel A. Radvansky

The cognitive neuroscience of discourse: Covered ground and new directions

Jeffrey Zacks, Raymond A. Mar, & Navona Calarco

Beliefs and Discourse Processing

Michael B. Wolfe & Thomas D. Griffin

Classroom Discourse: What do we need to know for research and for practice?

Catherine O’Connor & Catherine Snow

The Modern Reader: Should changes to how we read affect research and theory?

Joseph P. Magliano, Matthew T. McCrudden, Jean-Francois Rouet, & John Sabatini

Toward an integrated perspective of writing as a discourse process

Danielle S. McNamara and Laura K. Allen

Afterword: World-Wide Changes in Discourse and the Changing Field of Discourse Processes

Arthur C. Graesser, Morton Ann Gernsbacher & Susan R. Goldman