DISCOURSE AND TECHNOLOGY: MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS. Philip
Levine and Ron Scollon (Eds.). Washington, DC: Georgetown University
Press, 2004. Pp. vii + 229. $49.95 paper.
This volume is a collection of selected papers from the 2002
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages on Linguistics (GURT). It
contains 16 papers that are either loosely related to multimodal discourse
analysis or address the relationship between discourse and technology, but
not necessarily from the viewpoint of multimodal discourse analysis. The
main strength of the volume is that it provides a rich variety of
perspectives on discourse; the main weakness is that the perspectives do
not seem to shed light on one single phenomenon or even a set of related
phenomena, but, rather, the papers discuss various aspects of the
multifaceted field of discourse studies.