Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Discourse as action/discourse in action -- Part I Mediated action -- 2 Introducing mediated action -- 3 The rhythmic integration of action and discourse: work, the body and the earth -- 4 You always have to land: accomplishing the sequential organization of actions to land an airliner -- Mediated action: questions and mini projects -- Part II Mediational means/cultural tools -- 5 Introducing mediational means/cultural tools -- 6 Vygotsky's two approaches to mediation -- 7 Mediating discourses of transnational adoption on the internet -- 8 Multimodality, genre and design -- Mediational means/cultural tools: questions and mini projects -- Part III Practice -- 9 Introducing practice -- 10 Mediated actions, social practices, and contextualization: a case study from service encounters -- 11 Place, pace, and meaning: multimedia chronotopes -- 12 Using multiple situation definitions to create hybrid activity space -- Practice: questions and mini projects -- Part IV Sites of engagement -- 13 Introducing sites of engagement -- 14 Sites of engagement as sites of attention: time, space and culture in electronic discourse -- 15 From anticipation to performance: sites of engagement as process -- Sites of engagement: questions and mini projects -- Part V Agency -- 16 Introducing agency -- 17 Agency distributed through time, space and tools: Bentham, Babbage and the census -- 18 Habitus, social identity, the perception of male domination - and agency? -- Agency: questions and mini projects -- Methodology and concluding remarks -- 19 Methodological principles and new directions in MDA -- 20 Postscript -- References -- Index.

From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions. Discourse in Action:  brings together leading scholars from around the world in the area of Mediated Discourse Analysis reveals ways in which its theory and methodology can be used in research into contemporary social situations explores real situations and draws on real data in each chapter shows how analysis of texts in their social contexts broadens our understanding of the real world. Taken together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview to the field and present a range of current studies that address some of the most important questions facing students and researchers in linguistics, education, communication studies and other fields.

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