A groundbreaking collection by leading scholars that spans a broad range of social situations cultural contexts and analytic perspectivesThe contemporary landscape of discourse analysiswhich examines spoken written and multimodal communicationis so diverse that as volume contributor Deborah Tannen observes discourse has become almost synonymous with language and for many scholars extends well beyond it. The ways in which we communicate grow and change and so do approaches to discourse analysis along with the diversity of topics analytic contexts and disciplinary foundations. How do we conceptualize discourse What are the various approaches to studying it And how can we put these approaches into dialogueScholars within the field of linguistics and beyond contribute to this volume with discourse analyses in multiple languages contexts and modes.