The collection of essays on discourse as a form of social interaction includes: "Discourse as Interaction in Society" (Teun A. van Dijk); "Discourse Pragmatics" (Shoshana Blum-Kulka); "Conversation Analysis: An Approach to the Study of Social Action as Sense Making Practices" (Anita Pomerantz, B. J. Fehr); "Institutional Dialogue" (Paul Drew, Marja-Leena Sorjonen); "Gender in Discourse" (Candace West, Michelle M. Lazar, Cheris Kramarae); "Discourse, Ethnicity, Culture and Racism" (Teun A. van Dijk, Stella Ting-Toomey, Geneva Smitherman, Denise Troutman); "Organizational Discourse" (Dennis K. Mumby, Robin P. Clair); "Discourse and Politics" (Paul Chilton, Christina Schaffner); "Discourse and Culture" (Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka); "Critical Discourse Analysis" (Norman Fairclough, Ruth Wodak); and "Applied Discourse Analysis" (Britt-Louise Gunnarsson). Contents are indexed. (MSE)