Discourse Processes

A project of Society for Text and Discourse

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Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse--prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics. The problems posed by multisentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, although not always unique to discourse, are sufficiently distinct so as to require an organized mode of scientific interaction made possible through the journal. The journal accepts original experimental or theoretical papers that substantially advance understanding of the structure and function of discourse. Scholars working in the discourse area from the perspective of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse psychology, text linguistics, ethnomethodology and sociology of language, education, philosophy of language, computer science, and related subareas are invited to contribute.

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Country of Publication & Year Established

United States

Established in 1978

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Scholars.

Lengths:

Article: Up to 8,750 words.

Styles:

Academic.

Topics:

Education/Pedagogy: See guidelines.
Language/Linguistics: General, Sociolinguistics.
Philosophy: See guidelines.
Psychology: See guidelines.
Sociology: See guidelines.
Technology: Computer technology, See guidelines.

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Media: Text.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026

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