GILBERT WEISS is a Research Associate at the Research Center "Discourse, Politics, Identity" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Recent publications include European Union Discourses on Un/employment: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Employment Policy-Making and Organisational Change (together with Peter Muntigl and Ruth Wodak, Amsterdam 2000). - RUTH WODAK is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna and Director of the Research Center "Discourse, Politics, Identity" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Most recent publications include Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and Antisemitism (together with Martin Reisigl, London 2001), and Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (together with Michael Meyer, London 2001). -

• 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