Discourse Production and Comprehension (001) (Advances in Discourse Processes, 1)

Preface to volume 1: He full development and deeper understanding of the structure and function of discourse in social communication and its internal representation in the individual can only come about from a vigorous interaction of what are currently separate disciplines. The present edited collection of multidisciplinary papers is offered as a stimulus to this ultimate goal. Represented here are a wide variety of approaches to the study of discourse: sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, teacher-student interaction, conversational turn-taking, speech acts in developmental psycholinguistics, mathematical representations of discourse structure, the clinical interview, the interactionist approach to discourse, language production theories, Gricean constraints in discourse, and other related issues.