Preface Introduction; G. Weiss and R. Wodak SECTION ONE: CRITICAL - CRITICAL - CRITICAL Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique; M. Billig Critical Discourse Analysis and the Development of New Science; C. Gouveia Reflexivity and the Doubles of Modern Man - The Discursive Construction of Anthropological Subject Positions; M. W.Jorgensen SECTION TWO: DEBATING AND PRACTISING INTERDISCIPLINARITY Critical Discourse Analysis and Evaluative Meaning; Interdisciplinarity as a Critical Turn; P. Graham The Discourse-Knowledge Interface; T. A.van Dijk Texts and Discourses in the Technologies of Social Organisation; J. Lemke Identities in Flux: Arabs and Jews in Israel; M. Dascal Political and Somatic Alignment: Habitus. Ideology and Social Practise; S. Scollon Voicing the 'Other': Reading and Writing Indigenous Australians; J. Martin SECTION THREE: FROM THEORY TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PRACTISE? Activist Sociolinguistics in a Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective; P. O'Connor Discourse at Work: When Women Take on the Role of Managers; L. Martin-Rojo and C. Gomes-Esteban Cross-Cultural Representation of 'Otherness' in Media Discourse; C. C. Coulthard Interaction Between Visual and Verbal Communication - Changing Patterns in the Printed Media; C. Anthonissen