3.5 Critical issues and topics: highlighting practice and change -- 3.6 Future directions: digital textuality -- 3.7 Conclusion: the multidisciplinary advantage -- References -- Chapter 4: Critical approaches: media analysis in/and critical discourse studies -- 4.1 Introduction: media language in a critical-analytic perspective -- 4.2 Definitions: central tenets -- 4.3 Disciplinary perspectives: key approaches -- 4.4 Current contributions: types of media analysis in CDS -- 4.5 Critical issues and topics: genre, argument, context -- 4.6 Future directions: new avenues and challenges -- 4.7 Conclusion: ongoing change in media and CDS -- References -- Chapter 5: Cognitive approaches: media, mind, and culture -- 5.1 Introduction: the cognitive dimension -- 5.2 Definitions: media discourse and mental processes -- 5.3 Disciplinary perspectives: the cognitive paradigm -- 5.4 Current contributions: metaphor and beyond -- 5.5 Critical issues and topics: cognitive frameworks -- 5.6 Future directions: cognitive models -- 5.7 Conclusion: advances in cognitive approaches -- References -- Chapter 6: Corpus approaches: investigating linguistic patterns and meanings -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Definitions -- 6.3 Disciplinary perspectives -- 6.4 Current contributions and research -- 6.5 Critical issues and topics -- 6.6 Future directions -- 6.7 Conclusion -- References -- PART II: Media contexts and domains: locating relevance -- Recommended complementary reading -- Chapter 7: Mediation, technological change, and discourse: the case of television talk -- 7.1 Introduction: language, discourse, and technology -- 7.2 Definitions: from language as discourse to protocols of use -- 7.3 Disciplinary perspectives: 'tools for thinking with' -- 7.4 Current contributions: a framework for studying media discourse and its relation to communicative technology