Full Description
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.
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
