SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO USING NATURAL-LANGUAGE TEXTS

In recent years, the trend toward using natural language texts in soci al-psychological research has grown increasingly strong and a number o f diverse approaches to such texts have appeared. in the literature. T he articles in this special issue illustrate this trend. They also hig hlight several Key issues for researchers interested in language, incl uding the role of context, the status of speech versus speakers in the research design and analysis, the appropriate methodology, and the ap propriateness of studying language separately from the rest of the com munication package.