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Book SynopsisThe 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 editionchanges 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; conversatio
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"This book provides an impressive overview of important topics in discourse processing and comprehension, such as cognitive models of reading and conversation; of reading development and writing; and of research methods, from commonly used methods to relatively new methods such as neuroimaging and big data. Importantly, several chapters are co-authored by prominent authors who haven’t previously worked together, which adds significant depth to the handbook."
Paul van den Broek, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Discourse processes evolving
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Michael F. Schober, David N. Rapp & M. Anne Britt
Part I. Overviews
- Reading comprehension theories: A view from the top down
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Panayiota Kendeou & Edward J. O’Brien
- Theories and approaches to the study of conversation and interactive discourse
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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
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- Research Methods: Conversation analysis
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Saul Albert
- Research Methods: The study of language processing in human conversation Sarah Brown-Schmidt
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- Research Methods: Big data approaches to study discourse processes
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Michael Jones & Melody Dye
- Research Methods: Online measures of text processing
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Johanna K. Kaakinen
- Research Methods: Neuroscientific methods to study discourse processes
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Christopher A. Kurby
Part III. Topical Reviews
- The role of sourcing in discourse comprehension
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Ivar Bråten, Marc Stadtler, & Ladislao Salmerón
- Discourse updating: Acquiring and revising knowledge through discourse
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Tobias Richter & Murray Singer
- Discourse processing in technology-mediated environments
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Darren Gergle
- Discourse and expertise: The challenge of mutual understanding between experts and laypeople
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Rainer Bromme & Regina Jucks
- Discourse processing and development through the adult lifespan
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Elizabeth A. Stine-Morrow & Gabriel A. Radvansky
- The cognitive neuroscience of discourse: Covered ground and new directions
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Jeffrey Zacks, Raymond A. Mar, & Navona Calarco
- Beliefs and Discourse Processing
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Michael B. Wolfe & Thomas D. Griffin
- Classroom Discourse: What do we need to know for research and for practice?
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Catherine O’Connor & Catherine Snow
- The Modern Reader: Should changes to how we read affect research and theory?
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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
