Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Discourse in context /​ John Flowerdew
2.Considering context when analysing representations of gender and sexuality: A case study /​ Paul Baker
3.`Who are you and why are you following us?' Wh-questions and communicative context in television dialogue /​ Monika Bednarek
4.Discourse and discord in court: The role of context in the construction of witness examination in British criminal trial talk /​ Janet Cotterill
5.Business discourse in the globalized economy: The construction of an attractive workplace culture on the internet /​ Britt-Louise Gunnarsson
6.Context in spoken professional discourse: Language and practice in an international bridge design meeting /​ Michael Handford
7.Ethnicities without guarantees: An empirically situated approach /​ Ben Rampton
8.Constructing contexts through grammar: Cognitive models and conceptualization in British newspaper reports of political protests /​ Christopher Hart
Contents note continued: 9.Intervening in health care communication using discourse analysis /​ Katherine Carroll
10.Locating the power of place in space: A geosemiotic approach to context /​ Jackie Jia Lou
11.Lingua franca discourse in academic contexts: Shaped by complexity /​ Anna Mauranen
12.A multimodal approach to discourse, context and culture /​ Marissa K. L. E
13.Intervening in contexts of schooling /​ J. R. Martin
14.Turn-allocation and context: Broadening participation in the second language classroom /​ Hansun Zhang Waring
15.Political discourse analysis - Distinguishing frontstage and backstage contexts. A discourse-historical approach /​ Ruth Wodak.