Introduction&JOHN FLOWERDEW/MAURIZIO GOTTI

Academic and Scientific Discourse

A Contrastive Study of Encapsulation and Prospection in Written Scientific Text&INMACULADA ？LVAREZ DE MON Y REGO

Academically Speaking:The Use of-ly Adverbials by British and American Lecturers&INMACULADA FORTANET/JUAN CARLOS PALMER/MIGUEL RUIZ

Metamorphosis:Conference Abstract,Conference Presentation,Published Paper&IRENA VASSILEVA

Business and Economic Discourse

The Use of Discursive Features Expressing Causal Relations in Annual Company Reports&GIULIANA GARZONE

Metaphor and Ideology in Business and Economic Discourse in British and American English&SUSAN KERMAS

Specialized Discourse about Mergers and Acquisitions:Exploring a Cross-border Deal&GINA PONCINI

Editorial and Institutional Discourse

Speech Representation in Parliamentary Discourse.Rhetorical Strategies in a Heteroglossic Perspective:A Corpus-based Study&CINZIA BEVITORI

The Construction of Stance in BBC Television Coverage of the Iraqi War&LOUANN HAARMAN

Legal Discourse

Tag Questions in Courtroom Discourse&STEFANIA BISCETTI

Forms and Functions of Ambiguity in English Common Law Adjudication&ROSS CHARNOCK

Witness Strategies in the Hutton Inquiry&CHARLOTTE TAYLOR

Notes on Contributors