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This chapter exemplifies the approach we take in the project to analysing multimodal situated discourses. We follow the analytical framework devised for the project in segmenting the data (disagreement speech acts in a corpus of academic presentations)and annotating the data and processing the results by using ELAN. The chapter confirms the notion of multimodal mitigating devices proposed in Chapter 10 by showing the interplay between language and other modes of meaning-making in performing disagreements. It also provides evidence for the recurring feature of situated discourses, that is, academic presentations as a genre have their design features which are displayed in multimodal situated discourses.