Providing a comprehensive overview of Mediated Discourse Analysis this volume considers texts in their social and cultural contexts and examines the actions individuals take with texts and the consequences of those actions.

1. Mediated Dscourse Analysis 2. The Rhythmic Integration of Action and Discourse 3. Mediating Discourses of Transnational Adoption on the Internet 4. The Social Construction of Sacred Speech 5. Discursive Activity Along Life Traversals 6. Identity Construction and Power 7. The Role of Situation Definitions and Hybrid Activity Spaces in Learning 8. Semiotics as Resource 9. Agency Distributed through Time, Space and Tools 10. Talk-in-interaction and the Sequential Organization of Completed Actions in the Airline Cockpit 11. From Anticipation to Performance: Time as semiosis 12. Achieving Contextualization through Multimodal Engagement 13. Time, Space and Culture in Electronic Discourse 14. Theoretical Elucidations on Vygotsky and Mediated Discourse Analysis 15. Issues for and New Direction in Mediated Discourse Analysis