PART I: A CRITIQUE OF MAINSTREAM PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. 1. The Problematic. 2. Empirical Methods. 3. Fluency and Hesitation. 4. The Written. PART II: FOUNDATIONS FOR RESEARCH ON SPONTANEOUS SPOKEN DISCOURSE. 5. Rhetoric. 6. Intentionality. 7. From Monologism to Dialogicality. 8. Listening. PART III: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON SPONTANEOUS SPOKEN DISCOURSE. 9. Punctuation. 10. Transcription. 11. Pauses. 12. Prosody. 13. Fillers. 14. Interjections. 15. Referring. 16. Turn-taking. 17. Laughter. 18. Applause and Other Audience Reactions. PART IV: TOWARD A THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS SPOKEN DISCOURSE. 19. Intersubjectivity. 20. Perspectivity. 21. Open-endedness. 22. Verbal Integrity. 23. Spontaneous Spoken Discourse. 24. Communicating in Print about Communicating Orally.