i-iv -- Inhalt / Table of contents -- Vorwort -- Nachtrag -- Preface -- Le fonctionnement du dialogue dans un ‹genre› particulier: La confidence dans le roman-photo -- «Dire l'interdit» -- Lights, camera, action: visualizing TV election nights across cultures -- Election nights: a cross-cultural analysis of presenting practices -- Intersubjective positioning in election night discourse. A cross cultural analysis -- Interviews in TV election night broadcasts: a framework for cross-cultural analysis -- Represented discourse as a form of mediation from a contrastive point of view -- Non-acceptances in political interviews: British styles and German styles in conflict? -- Argumentative strategies: the French debate about immigration -- The discourse marker of course in British political interviews and its Dutch and Swedish counterparts: a comparison of persuasive tactics -- Cyberwar perception management in the Middle East: A view from pragmatics -- Christmas Messages 1998 by heads of state on radio and TV: pragmatic functions, semiotic forms, media adequacy -- "Like in the movies": Dialogue between different voices in the public discourse in Israel -- Interviews in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften: Frage- und Antwortbeziehungen -- Die Wiedergabe von bewertenden und metasprachlichen Elementen in der Übersetzung von Zeitungsinterviews -- Media manipulation -- Personnel advertisements as a form of mediated dialogic interaction -- Discussions in the media -- Rhetorical questions in polemical media dialogue -- The president and the media in Venezuelan political dialogue -- Zur argumentativen Funktion der Gesprächsformeln im öffentlichen Dialog (am Beispiel der rumänischen Massenmedien) -- Fragmentation in talk shows -- Other-correction in TV talk shows -- "I'm on total ovary overload": The linguistic representation of women in Sex and the City -- The translation of comic dialogue for film and television -- Tradition épistolaire et médias numériques: du billet au courrier électronique -- Les usages conversationnels dans les dialogues électroniques entre Marocains -- Marques pragmatiques et marques de l'oral dans le dialogue par courrier électronique -- Job on line: The diatextual rhetoric of e-recruitment -- Perceiving coherence and text structure: Which cohesive ties are really textual? -- De l'acte aux activités: les séquences -- Accented argumentum ad hominem in mediated dialogues