ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |14 pages
Introduction
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part I|31 pages
Mediated action
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You always have to land: accomplishing the sequential organization of actions to land an airliner
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part II|48 pages
Mediational means/cultural tools
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part III|41 pages
Practice
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Mediated actions, social practices, and contextualization: a case study from service encounters
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part IV|30 pages
Sites of engagement
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Sites of engagement as sites of attention: time, space and culture in electronic discourse
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part V|31 pages
Agency
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Agency distributed through time, space and tools: Bentham, Babbage and the census
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Methodology and concluding remarks
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