1. Chats in Alaska with Ron / Gary Snyder 3 --
2. Looking for the little dog / Helen Frost 5 --
3. Scenes from skirmishes on the bilingual front / Gary Holthaus 9 --
4. Language of commerce interprets living systems: Something's lost in the translation / Layne A. Longfellow 35 --
I. Educational Discourse --
5. Cultures of learning: The social construction of educational identities / Martin Cortazzi, Lixian Jin 49 --
6. Discourses at school / James Paul Gee 79 --
7. Identity, resistance and resilience: Counter narratives and subaltern voices in Alaskan higher education in 1991 / Perry Gilmore, David Smith 103 --
8. Duality and continuum in indirect talk: Linguistic style and gender in clinical supervision / Reiko Hayashi, Takuo Hayashi 135 --
9. "Discourses" that promote new academic identities / Sarah Michaels, Richard Sohmer 171 --
II. Criticial and Media Studies --
10. Language, high-status knowledge, and the double binds in addressing the ecological crisis / C. A. Bowers 223 --
11. English in Hong Kong at the moment of reversion to Chinese sovereignty / John Flowerdew 233 --
12. What's news? A comparison of analysis of news production between the qualitative sociological approach and culturalist tradition / Anthony Fung 255 --
13. Guanxi: Backdoor practice as goal-directed discourse / GU Yueguo 273 --
14. Genres of symbolic violence: Beauty-contest discourse practices in Hong Kong / Angel M.Y. Lin 299 --
III. Intercutlural / Interdiscourse Communication --
15. "I speak the language of the universe": A universally particularizing native American discourse / Donal Carbaugh 319 --
16. Tlingit clans and shifting patterns of socio-political discourse / Richard Dauenhauer, Nora Marks Dauenhauer 335 --
17. Moral work in intercultural communication: Explicit reference to moral norms in German-Chinese interactions / Susanne Gunthner 361 --
18. On identity and membership in multicultural broadcast interaction / Arja Piirainen-Marsh 393 --
19. Saa Taaigik: A metaphor for conflict management / Suzanne Scollon, Yuling Pan 423 --
20. "Gleaning" and the proactive audience: An Athabascan perspective for modern folkloristics / Barre Toelken 451 --
IV. From Language Learning to Comparative Poetics --
21. Expressions of L1 Literacy in L2 Writing / Eli Hinkel 465 --
22. Use of citations and authorial voice in a genre of Chinese academic discourse / Andy Kirkpatrick, YAN Yonglin 483 --
23. Learning Cantonese: Reflections of an EFL teacher educator / Gertrude Tinker Sachs 509 --
24. Enlisting patterns, enlisting members / Dell Hymes, Virginia Hymes 541 --
25. Pragmatic dissonance: The ecstasy and agony of speaking like a native speaker of English / David C. S. Li 559.