Identity, Community, Discourse

Contents: Giuseppina Cortese/Anna Duszak: Introduction - Ron Scollon/Suzie Wong Scollon: Fast English, Slow Food, and Intercultural Exchanges: Social Problems and Problems for Discourse Analysis - Suresh Canagarajah: Shuttling between Discourses: Textual and Pedagogical Possibilities for Periphery Scholars - Anna Duszak: Between Styles and Values: An Academic Community in Transition - Christer Laurén: On the Border: Writing Scientific Texts and Fiction - John Douthwaite: Community, Values, Action and Discourse: Language and Bureaucracy in Colonial to Post-colonial Literary Settings - Maurizio Gotti: English in Intercultural Settings: Globalising Trends and Local Resistance - Philip Riley: Ethos and the Communicative Virtues in Exolinguistic Service Encounters - Maria Grazia Guido: Context Misconstructions in Professional Entextualizations of «Asylum» Discourse - Paola Evangelisti Allori: Metaphors they Report by: The Construction of National Identity through Sports Commentaries in Different Cultural Communities - Edith Esch: Representations of English among French Adolescents in Senegal - Anna Mauranen: English as Lingua Franca: An Unknown Language? - Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet/Shirley Carter-Thomas: Scientific Conference Englishes: Epistemic and Language Community Variations - Malgorzata Sokól: Academic Identity Construction in E-discussion Lists: A Case Study - Kristina Svartholm: Teaching Literacy to Deaf Learners - Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani: The Power of the Language in Delineating the Boundaries of Power: The US Constitution Interpreted by the first 'Federalist Community' - Giuditta Caliendo/Gabriella Di Martino/Marco Venuti: Language and Discourse Features of EU Secondary Legislation - Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli/Elena Di Giovanni/Ira Torresi: Visual and Verbal Aspects of Otherness: From Disney to Coppola - Nicoletta Vasta: «Profits & Principles: Is There a Choice?» The Multimodal Construction of Shell's Commitment to Social Responsibility and the

The Editors: Giuseppina Cortese is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Turin, Italy.
Anna Duszak is Professor of Linguistics at Warsaw University and Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland.