Introduction&JOHN FLOWERDEW/MAURIZIO GOTTI 5
Academic and Scientific Discourse 19
A Contrastive Study of Encapsulation and Prospection in Written Scientific Text&INMACULADA ？LVAREZ DE MON Y REGO 19
Academically Speaking:The Use of-ly Adverbials by British and American Lecturers&INMACULADA FORTANET/JUAN CARLOS PALMER/MIGUEL RUIZ 39
Metamorphosis:Conference Abstract,Conference Presentation,Published Paper&IRENA VASSILEVA 59
Business and Economic Discourse 79
The Use of Discursive Features Expressing Causal Relations in Annual Company Reports&GIULIANA GARZONE 79
Metaphor and Ideology in Business and Economic Discourse in British and American English&SUSAN KERMAS 107
Specialized Discourse about Mergers and Acquisitions:Exploring a Cross-border Deal&GINA PONCINI 129
Editorial and Institutional Discourse 153
Speech Representation in Parliamentary Discourse.Rhetorical Strategies in a Heteroglossic Perspective:A Corpus-based Study&CINZIA BEVITORI 153
The Construction of Stance in BBC Television Coverage of the Iraqi War&LOUANN HAARMAN 179
Legal Discourse 207
Tag Questions in Courtroom Discourse&STEFANIA BISCETTI 207
Forms and Functions of Ambiguity in English Common Law Adjudication&ROSS CHARNOCK 237
Witness Strategies in the Hutton Inquiry&CHARLOTTE TAYLOR 261
Notes on Contributors 287