Discourse, Identities and Roles in Specialized Communication

Contents: James Archibald: Foreword: Discursive Identity in Professional Communication - Giuliana Garzone: Actors, Identities and Roles in Professional and Academic Discourse: An Introduction - Srikant Sarangi: Reconfiguring Self/Identity/Status/Role: The Case of Professional Role Performance in Healthcare Encounters - James Archibald: Sex and Textness: Do Men and Women Write and Rewrite the Same Way? - Costanza Cucchi: Vague Expressions in the European Parliament: A Marker of Cultural Identity? - Cinzia Spinzi/Eliana Terminiello: 'It's up to all of us': Social Identity in the Language of Public Warnings - Paola Evangelisti Allori: Content as Indicator of Genre Identity. Key Concepts in Sports-related Arbitral Awards - Alessandra Fazio/Michela Menghini: Professional Identity in Sports-Related Discourse: A Study on the Modelling of a Dynamic Conceptual Structure - Bettina Mottura: Chinese Civil Servants and the Creation of a Discourse Community to Promote Social Change - Giuliana Garzone/Maurizio Catino/Giampietro Gobo/Miriam Bait/Paola Catenaccio/Chiara Degano/Simone Rozzi: Towards an Integrated Model for the Understanding of Communication Failures in Aviation Accidents: Tenuous Identities under Pressure - William Bromwich: Representation of Self and Other in Everyday Life: The Language of Disability in the Handcycle Corpus - Kjersti Fløttum: Linguistically Marked Cultural Identity in Research Articles - Davide Simone Giannoni: Metaphoric Values and Disciplinary Identity in English Research Articles - Michele Sala: Interrogative Forms as Professional Identity Markers in Legal Research Articles - Ulisse Belotti: Manifestations of Identity in Research Articles: The Case of Italian Economics Scholars - Stefania M. Maci: Argumentative Structure in American and Italian Medical Research Articles - Larissa D'Angelo: Exploring Gender Identity in Academic Book Reviews - Polly Walsh: Multiple Roles and Footing Shifts in Academic Lectures.