Contents // About the authors vi // Acknowledgements vii // Introduction viii // I Preliminaries 1 // 1 Discourse and discourse analysis 3 // 2 Speech and writing: the debate on difference 15 // 3 Writing, technologies and media 29 // 4 Scripts and spelling 43 // II Approaches 59 // 5 Approaches to written discourse: an initial orientation 61 // 6 Critical discourse analysis 66 // 7 Corpus-based discourse analysis 81 // 8 Multimodal discourse analysis 97 // 9 Computer-mediated discourse analysis 112 // 10 Multilingual discourse analysis 130 // HI Applications 151 // 11 Working with written discourse in social research 153 // 12 Designing your own projects 169 // Glossary 183 // Bibliography 188 // Index 195