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This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms, practices, modes, programmes and rationalities of the 'conduct of conduct' today. Following the publication of Foucault's annual lecture series at the Collège de France, scholars have attempted to critically rethink Foucault's ideas. This is the first volume that attempts to revisit and expand studies of governmentality by connecting it to the theories and methods of discourse analysis. The volume draws on different theoretical stances and methodological approaches including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, dialogic analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, the discourse-historical approach, corpus analysis and French discourse analysis. The volume is relevant to students and scholars in the fields of critical discourse studies, conversation analysis, international studies, environmental studies, political science, public policy and organisation studies.

This edited volume brings together scholars from psychology, linguistics, sociology and communication science to investigate how performative notions of gender and sexuality can be fruitfully explored with the rich set of tools that have been developed by conversation analysis and discursive psychology for analyzing everyday practical language use, agency and identity in talk.Contributors re-examine the foundations of earlier research on gender in spoken interaction, critically appraise this research to see if and how it 'translates' successfully into the study of sexuality in talk, and promote innovative alternatives that integrate the insights of recent feminist and queer theory with qualitative studies of talk and conversation. Detailed empirical analyses of naturally occurring talk are used to uncover how gender and sexual identities, agencies and desires are contingently accomplished in conversational practices. Collectively, they pose the important question of what a critical theory of talk, gender and sexuality ought to look like if it is to be sensitive to a politics of conversation analysis.

From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions. Discourse in Action: brings together leading scholars from around the world in the area of Mediated Discourse Analysis reveals ways in which its theory and methodology can be used in research into contemporary social situations explores real situations and draws on real data in each chapter shows how analysis of texts in their social contexts broadens our understanding of the real world. Taken together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview to the field and present a range of current studies that address some of the most important questions facing students and researchers in linguistics, education, communication studies and other fields.

Speakers' Corner is a multicultural setting in a London park at which the general public can actively participate in popular debate. A successful “soap-box” orator should attract and keep an audience, elicit support from the crowd, and gain applause; indeed, a mastery of the crowd, the discourse, and the message is highly valued. However, although talk resources are deployed sensitively by speakers to elicit group affiliation and response, they are also exploitable by hecklers as resources for launching heckles and disaffiliative responses. Audiences at Speakers' Corner are not passive receivers of rhetorical messages; they are active negotiators of interpretations and alignments that may support, resist, or conflict with the speaker's and other audience members' orientations to prior talk. Using transcribed examples of video data recorded at Speakers' Corner, the timing, format, and sequential organization of heckling are described and analyzed with the tools and methods of conversation analysis. (Conversation analysis, audience response, popular public discourse, political speech, heckle)

This paper examines how cultural identities are negotiated in popular debate at a multicultural public setting in London. Speakers at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park manage the local construction of group affiliation, audience response and argument in and through talk, within the context of ethnic, religious and general topical 'soapbox' oration. However, audiences are not passive receivers of rhetorical messages. They are active negotiators of interpretations and alignments that may conflict with the speaker's and other audience members' orientations to prior talk. Speakers' Corner is a space in which participant 'citizens' in the public sphere can struggle actively over cultural representation and identities. Transcribed examples of video data recorded at Speakers' Corner are examined to show how cultural identity is invoked in the management of active participation. Audiences and their affiliations are regulated and made accountable through the routines of membership categorization and the policing of cultural identities and their imaginary borders.

This book provides 10 chapters that represent the proceedings from an international symposium entitled \"Talking Gender and Sexuality,\" which took place from 5-6 November, 1999 at Aalborg University in Denmark. The symposium was the result of the need for a different theoretical paradigm separate from the difference & dominance models that have recently monopolized the field of gender studies, yet have come to be viewed as flawed because they reduced & naturalized a more complicated world into only two genders, & typically ignored the differences within each. Central issues that these chapters are concerned with include performativity, heterosexism, verbal aggression, homosexuality, homophobia, hate speech, important differences between sex & gender, & the damaging presuppositions made by previous scholarship in gender studies & conversation analysis. In addition to the latter, another important empirical framework used in this book is feminist discursive psychology, & special attention is paid to properly selecting units of analysis, the limits of analysis (what phenomena cannot be observed), & the political nature of conversation analysis. C. Croom