Technology has played a crucial role in the analysis of spoken and written discourse. Not only has it impacted how discourse data are collected, transcribed, and analyzed, but it has also crucially changed the types of social interactions and texts that are examined. Utilizing technological tools to capture and investigate language in use, the field of discourse studies has profoundly transformed our views of human communication, communicative repertoire needed to interact effectively in various discourse domains, and approaches to language teaching and learning.