Afterward

In this volume we have chosen to group chapters along axes that correspond to the modalities, contexts, and participants associated with the data. Among other distinctions, this organization locates naturally occurring interactions as distinct from mediatized language, workplace language as distinct from the language of university students, and the language of vlogs and social media sites as consequentially different to the language of television dramas. While this organizational methodology illuminates important relationships and connections between these data it also necessarily obscures other connections.