The 32nd Austrian Congress in Linguistics in 2004 hosted a workshop entitled -Empirical Approaches to Discourse Analysis-. This workshop aimed at bringing together proponents of different empirical approaches to discourse analysis and raising discussion among such diverse disciplines as Systemic Functional Linguistics, Rhetorical Structure Theory, Conversation Analysis, Social Pragmatics, Argumentation Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics. The volume is the result of the fruitful discussion and the interdisciplinary work started in that...