Meaning Making

A Special Issue of Discourse Processes

Edited by Timothy Koschmann

This special issue focuses on the difficult problem of how observers and researchers can make sense of how collaborating participants develop a shared understanding both...

1999 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-9805-7 (Routledge)

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From Language To Communication

By Donald G. Ellis

From Language to Communication focuses on the structure of texts and on the social and psychological aspects of language. Utilizing current thinking and research, this...

1999 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-3032-3 (Routledge)

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Narrative Comprehension, Causality, and Coherence

Essays in Honor of Tom Trabasso

Edited by Susan R. Goldman, Arthur C. Graesser, Paul van den Broek

This volume provides an excellent overview of the field of discourse processes, capturing both its breadth and its depth. World-renowned researchers present the latest theoretical...

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-3358-4 (Routledge)

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Language and Social Interaction at the Century's Turn

A Special Double Issue of research on Language and Social Interaction

Edited by Karen Tracy

What are the most interesting and important directions for language and social interaction study? This special issue brings together more than 20 essays from prominent...

1999 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-9807-1 (Routledge)

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French Discourse Analysis

The Method of Post-Structuralism

By Glyn Williams

For the first time in English, Glyn Williams draws together current debates in linguistics and social theory, and provides the first study in English of...

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18940-8 (Routledge)

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Constructing "the Beginning"

Discourses of Creation Science

By Simon Locke

In Constructing the Beginning, Simon Locke offers a new approach to considering the enigma of creation science, using the perspective of discourse analysis. Using the...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2347-9 (Routledge)

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Validation in Language Assessment

Edited by Antony John Kunnan

Validation in Language Assessment contributes to the variety of validation approaches and analytical and interpretive techniques only recently adopted by language assessment researchers. Featuring selected...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2753-8 (Routledge)

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Quantitative Approaches To Semantic Knowledge Representations

A Special Double Issue of discourse Processes

Edited by Peter W. Foltz

This special issue describes several approaches to semantic knowledge representations. Each approach relies on statistical procedures to derive or analyze its representation. The articles cover...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-9848-4 (Psychology Press)

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Aphasia in Atypical Populations

Edited by Patrick Coppens, Yvan Lebrun, Anna Basso

Theory and research in aphasiology have typically concentrated on a limited population--right-handed adult monolinguals whose language uses an alphabetic code. Bilingual individuals, ideographical code users,...

1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-1738-6 (Routledge)

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Other Floors, Other Voices

A Textography of A Small University Building

By John M. Swales

The author describes this volume as a "textography" because it combines certain elements of both text analysis and ethnography. Through analysis of texts, textual forms,...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2088-1 (Routledge)

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