2nd Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes Second Edition

Edited By Michael F. Schober, David N. Rapp, M. Anne Britt Copyright 2018
    420 Pages
    by Routledge

    420 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    1. Introduction: Discourse processes evolving
    2. Michael F. Schober, David N. Rapp & M. Anne Britt

       

      Part I. Overviews

    3. Reading comprehension theories: A view from the top down
    4. Panayiota Kendeou & Edward J. O’Brien

    5. Theories and approaches to the study of conversation and interactive discourse
    6. William S. Horton

    7. Studying discourse processes in institutional contexts

    Adrian Bangerter & Joep Cornellisen

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

    1. Research Methods: Conversation analysis
    2. Saul Albert

    3. Research Methods: The study of language processing in human conversation Sarah Brown-Schmidt
    4. Research Methods: Big data approaches to study discourse processes
    5. Michael Jones & Melody Dye

    6. Research Methods: Online measures of text processing
    7. Johanna K. Kaakinen

    8. Research Methods: Neuroscientific methods to study discourse processes
    9. Christopher A. Kurby

       

      Part III. Topical Reviews

    10. The role of sourcing in discourse comprehension
    11. Ivar Bråten, Marc Stadtler, & Ladislao Salmerón

    12. Discourse updating: Acquiring and revising knowledge through discourse
    13. Tobias Richter & Murray Singer

    14. Discourse processing in technology-mediated environments
    15. Darren Gergle

    16. Discourse and expertise: The challenge of mutual understanding between experts and laypeople
    17. Rainer Bromme & Regina Jucks

    18. Discourse processing and development through the adult lifespan
    19. Elizabeth A. Stine-Morrow & Gabriel A. Radvansky

    20. The cognitive neuroscience of discourse: Covered ground and new directions
    21. Jeffrey Zacks, Raymond A. Mar, & Navona Calarco

    22. Beliefs and Discourse Processing
    23. Michael B. Wolfe & Thomas D. Griffin

    24. Classroom Discourse: What do we need to know for research and for practice?
    25. Catherine O’Connor & Catherine Snow

    26. The Modern Reader: Should changes to how we read affect research and theory?
    27. Joseph P. Magliano, Matthew T. McCrudden, Jean-Francois Rouet, & John Sabatini

    28. 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

    Biography

    Michael F. Schober is Professor of Psychology and Vice Provost for Research at The New School, USA. He served as Editor of Discourse Processes from 2005–15.

    David N. Rapp is Professor in the Department of Psychology, School of Education and Social Policy, and a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, USA. He is Editor of Discourse Processes.

    M. Anne Britt is Distinguished Teaching and Research Professor of Psychology at Northern Illinois University, USA. She recently was Co-PI on the IES-funded Project READI, which focused on evidence-based argumentation for disciplinary learning.

    "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