Discourse in Action: Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis

by Jones; Rodney H.

• ISBN13: 9780415354295
• ISBN10: 0415354293
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

linguistics, education, communication studies and other fields.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
Preface	xi
SIGRID NORRIS AND RODNEY H. JONES
Introduction
1 Discourse as action/discourse in action	3	(12)
RODNEY H. JONES AND SIGRID NORRIS
PART I Mediated action	15	(32)
2 Introducing mediated action	17	(3)
SIGRID NORRIS AND RODNEY H. JONES
3 The rhythmic integration of action and discourse: work, the body and the earth	20	(12)
RON SCOLLON
4 You always have to land: accomplishing the sequential organization of actions to land an airliner	32	(17)
MAURICE NEVILE
PART II Mediational means/cultural tools	47	(48)
5 Introducing mediational means/cultural tools	49	(3)
RODNEY H. JONES AND SIGRID NORRIS
6 Vygotsky's two approaches to mediation	52	(10)
JAMES V. WERLSCH
7 Mediating discourses of transnational adoption on the internet	62	(11)
PAUL MCILVENNY AND PIRKKO RAUDASKOSKI
8 Multimodality, genre and design	73	(24)
THEO VAN LEEUWEN
PART III Practice	95	(42)
9 Introducing practice	97	(3)
RODNEY H. JONES AND SIGRID NORRIS
10 Mediated actions, social practices, and contextualization: a case study from service encounters	100	(10)
LAURENT FILLIETTAZ
11 Place, pace, and meaning: multimedia chronotopes	110	(13)
JAY LEMKE
12 Using multiple situation definitions to create hybrid activity space	123	(14)
SHAWN ROWE
PART IV Sites of engagement	137	(30)
13 Introducing sites of engagement	139	(2)
SIGRID NORRIS AND RODNFY H. JONES
14 Sites of engagement as sites of attention: time, space and culture in electronic discourse	141	(14)
RODNEY H. JONES
15 From anticipation to performance: sites of engagement as process	155	(12)
INGRID DE SAINT -GEORGES
PART V Agency	167	(32)
16 Introducing agency	169	(3)
RODNEY H. JONES AND SIGRID NORRIS
17 Agency distributed through time, space and tools: Bentham, Babbage and the census	172	(11)
SUZIE SCOLLON
18 Habitus, social identity, the perception of male domination - and agency?	183	(16)
SIGRID NORRIS
Methodology and concluding remarks: mediated discourse analysis	199	(8)
19 Methodological principles and new directions in MDA	201	(6)
SIGRID NORRIS AND RODNEY H. JONES
20 Postscript	207	(3)
GUNTHER KRESS
References	210	(16)
Index	226