Discourse in action : introducing mediated discourse analysis / edited by Sigrid Norris and Rodney H. Jones.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Part V. Agency -- 16. Introducing agency -- 17. Agency distributed through time, space and tools: Bentham, Babbage and the census -- 18. Habitus, social identity, the perceptions of male domination - and agency? -- Methodology and concluding remarks: mediated discourse analysis -- 19. Methodological principles and new directions in MDA -- 20. Postscript.