Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the special double issue of Discourse Processes highlighting work presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse held in Chicago in July 2024 is now available online, and print copies are on their way to everyone with print subscriptions. The double issue includes contributions that represent the breadth of topics researched by the interdisciplinary and international membership of the Society, with papers coming from both text and discourse traditions.
Three papers looking at text processing consider reading processes at a variety of grain sizes include: Singer and Spear (2025) “Representing and remembering text paraphrases: A phantom recollection analysis”; Adams and Wiley (2025) “The impact of prior knowledge and presentation on the place-on-the-page effect”; and Oger, Rouet, and Sanchiz (2025) “Impact of reading self-concept, intrinsic reading motivation and reading value on sixth graders’ purposeful reading strategies and outcomes: The mediating role of the task model”.
Three papers exploring discourse also cover a range of topics from face-to-face interactions to social media posts including: Scholman and Laparle (2025) “Can gestures speak louder than words? The effect of gestural discourse markers on discourse expectations”; Dolgin, Calbi, Huang, and Schober (2025) “Misunderstanding stance in tweets”; and Marini, D’Ortenzio, Petriglia, Bosco and Gasparotto (2025) “Unveiling the dynamics of discourse production in healthy aging and its connection to cognitive skills”.
In addition, some highlights of the 2024 conference included two special sessions in remembrance of Walter Kintsch — whose life and work have left an indelible impression on the society and the field of text processing and comprehension. As a special bonus, we have the privilege of presenting one more remembrance as part of the conference issue, authored by Walter himself (Kintsch, 2025) We are grateful to Eileen Kintsch for offering this piece to us all.
We hope you enjoy reading these articles!
Sincerely,
M. Anne Britt, Jennifer Wiley, & Michael Wolfe
Guest Editors
Adams, R. A., & Wiley, J. (2025). The impact of prior knowledge and presentation on the place-on-the-page effect. Discourse Processes, 62(6–7). https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2476326
Dolgin, R. S., Calbi, S. L., Huang, J. W., & Schober, M. F. (2025). Misunderstanding stance in tweets. Discourse Processes, 62(6–7). https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2516982
Kintsch, W. (2025). A history of psychology as it happened to me. Discourse Processes, 62(6–7). https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2511585
Marini, A., D’Ortenzio, S., Petriglia, F., Bosco, F. M., & Gasparotto, G. (2025). Unveiling the dynamics of discourse production in healthy aging and its connection to cognitive skills. Discourse Processes, 62(6–7). https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2507548
Oger, D., Rouet, J. F., & Sanchiz, M. (2025). Impact of reading self-concept, intrinsic reading motivation and reading value on sixth graders’ purposeful reading strategies and outcomes: The mediating role of the task model. Discourse Processes, 62(6–7). https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2516387
Scholman, M., & Laparle, S. (2025). Can gestures speak louder than words? The effect of gestural discourse markers on discourse expectations. Discourse Processes, 62(6–7). https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2499414
Singer, M., & Spear, J. (2025). Representing and remembering text paraphrases: A phantom recollection analysis. Discourse Processes, 62(6–7). https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2462513
Wiley, J., Wolfe, M. B., & Britt, M. A. (2025). Introduction to the special issue. Discourse Processes, 62(6–7). https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2518733