Introductory article by Stef Slembrouck. Mostly from a socio-linguistic perspective, but sensitive to philosophy of language.

Article by Steven Hoenisch.

Article by Steven M. Hoenisch. Examines influence of Wittgenstein on Gricean pragamtics, and on Searle's speech act theory, to motivate Discourse Analysis.

The dynamics of conversation in a learning community as a special case of complex adaptive systems.

Article by Michael Peters and Nicholas Burbules, discussing the nature of philosophy as a discourse. The article begins with a discussion of the petition against Derrida's honorary degree at Cambridge.

The application of critical discourse analysis and cultural practice theory to the study of gender and language.

Article by Sarah Hickman discussing what educators need to know about patterns of classroom discourse, to best appraise the needs of their students.

Stef Slembrouck focuses on the proces of digitalisation and on implication on methods and topics of research.

Determines the extent to which structured discourse segment boundaries can be extracted from annotated transcriptions of spontaneous, natural dialogues.

Offers a critique of East Anglia critical linguistics (Fowler, Hodge, Kress, Trew)