Genres, registers, and contexts of discourse / Allen D. Grimshaw -- Text comprehension / Rolf A. Zwaan and Murray Singer -- Processes of interactive spoken discourse : the role of the partner / Michael F. Schober and Susan E. Brennan -- Classroom discourse / Courtney B. Cazden and Sarah W. Beck -- Learning from traditional and alternative texts : new conceptualizations for the information age / Patricia A. Alexander and Tamara L. Jetton -- Theories and methods in mediated communication / Steve Whittaker -- Narrative discourse / David Bloome -- Literary discourse / David S. Miall -- Nonliteral speech acts in text and discourse / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Discourse development / Michael Bamberg and Luke Moissinac -- Discourse in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence / Johanna D. Moore and Peter Wiemer-Hastings -- Quantitative cognitive models of text and discourse processing / Peter W. Foltz