Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-225) and index.
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Discourse as action/discourse in action / Rodney H. Jones and Sigrid Norris -- Introducing mediated action / Sigrid Norris and Rodney H. Jones -- The rhythmic integration of action and discourse : work, the body and the earth / Ron Scollon -- You always have to land : accomplishing the sequential organization of actions to land an airliner / Maurice Neville -- Introducing mediational means/cultural tools / Rodney H. Jones and Sigrid Norris -- Vygotsky's two approaches to mediation / James V. Wertsch -- Mediating discourses of transnational adoption on the internet / Paul McIlvenny and Pirkko Raudaskoski -- Multimodality, genre and design / Theo Van Leeuwen -- Introducing practice / Rodney H. Jones and Sigrid Norris -- Mediated actions, social practices, and contextualization : a case study from service encounters / Laurent Filliettaz -- Place, pace, and meaning : multimedia chronotypes / Jay Lemke -- Using multiple situation definitions to create hybrid activity space / Shawn Rowe -- Introducing sites of engagement / Sigrid Norris and Rodney H. Jones -- Sites of engagement as sites of attention : time, space and culture in electronic discourse / Rodney H. Jones -- From anticipation to performance : sites of engagement as process / Ingrid de Saint-Georges -- Introducing agency / Rodney H. Jones and Sigrid Norris -- Agency distributed through time, space and tools : Bentham, Babbage and the census / Suzie Scollon -- Habitus, social identity, the perception of male domination -- and agency? / Sigrid Norris -- Methodological principles and new directions in MDA / Sigrid Norris and Rodney H. Jones -- Postscript / Gunther Kress.
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From discussions in the airline cockpit to emails relating to adoption over the Internet, 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.