Discourse analysis and rhetorical studies / Christopher Eisenhart and Barbara Johnstone -- Studying style and legitimation : critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis / Sean Zdenek and Barbara Johnstone. Talking the (political) talk : Cold War refugees and their political legitimation through style / Andreea Deciu Ritivoi ; Reporting Waco : the constitutive work of bureaucratic style / Christopher Eisenhart ; The rhetoric of temporality : the future as linguistic construct and rhetorical resource / Patricia L. Dunmire ; The intertextual forging of epideictic discourse : construals of victims in the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings / Susan Lawrence -- Studying identity and agency : CDA, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, grounded theory / Barbara Johnstone. Muted voices : cochlear implants, news discourse, and the public fascination with curing deafness / Sean Zdenek ; "American humor" versus "Indian humor" : identity, ethos, and rhetorical situation / Neeta Bhasin ; Ethos and narrative in online educational chat / Martha S. Cheng ; Disciplinary rhetorics, rhetorical agency, and the construction of voice / Amanda Young -- Studying entextualization and controversy : CDA, participant observation, computer-aided corpus analysis / Barbara Johnstone. How a media controversy can influence a scientific publication : the case of Robert L. Spitzer's "reparative therapy" study / Craig O. Stewart ; Controversy as a media event category / Peter A. Cramer ; Analyzing everyday talk about social issues / Susan Gilpin.