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.
