New Trends in Specialized Discourse Analysis

Contents: Maurizio Gotti/Davide S. Giannoni: Introduction - Christopher N. Candlin: Accounting for Interdiscursivity: Challenges to Professional Expertise - Marianne Grove Ditlevsen: Der Geschäftsbericht als komplexe Textsorte - Inger Askehave: Spirituality in the Corporate World - Patrick Leroyer/Bernt Møller : Intégration du genre dans le dictionnaire d'entreprise : Le cas des case stories - Donatella Malavasi: Evaluation in Banks' Annual Reports: A Comparison of EL1 and EIL texts - Diana Yankova: The Interplay of Structural and Semantic Constituents in Statutory Texts - Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski: Frequent Phraseology in Contractual Instruments: A Corpus-based Study - Cecile Desoutter: Le processus de simplification du langage administratif en France - Aino Piehl: The Influence of EU Legislation on Finnish Legal Discourse - Khurshid Ahmad: Metaphors in the Languages of Science? - Susanne Göpferich: How Comprehensible are Popular Science Texts? The Use of Thinking-aloud Protocols and Log Files of Reverbalization Processes in Comprehensibility Research - Estrella Montolío Durán: Formación en técnicas de comunicación escrita dirigida a ingenieros de informática. El caso de la marcación de la operación textual de la enumeración - Paola Catenaccio: The SARS Crisis Coverage in the British Medical Journal and New Scientist.

The Editors: Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He is currently President of the Italian Association of University Language Centres and Director of CERLIS, the research centre on specialized languages based at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialized discourse, English syntax, and English lexicology and lexicography.
Davide S. Giannoni is a tenured researcher in English Linguistics, Language and Translation at the University of Bergamo, where he is currently involved in a national research project on 'Identity and Culture in Academic Communication'. His research interests include the sociopragmatic and textual features of specialised discourse in academic, legal and business settings.