| 1 | | The challenges of different settings: An overview by Annelie Adel and Randi Reppen | | 1 |
| Sect. I | | Exploring discourse in academic settings | | |
| 2 | | ... post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on and so forth: A comparative analysis of vague category markers in academic discourse by Steve Walsh and Anne OKeeffe and Michael McCarthy | | 9 |
| 3 | | Emphatics in academic discourse: Integrating corpus and discourse tools in the study of cross-disciplinary variation by Marina Bondi | | 31 |
| 4 | | Interaction, identity and culture in academic writing: The case of German, British and American academics in the humanities by Tamsin Sanderson | | 57 |
| Sect. II | | Exploring discourse in workplace settings | | |
| 5 | | "Got a date or something?": An analysis of the role of humour and laughter in the workplace meetings of English language teachers by Elaine Vaughan | | 95 |
| 6 | | Determining discourse-based moves in professional reports by Lynne Flowerdew | | 117 |
| 7 | | // [actual symbol not reproducible] ONE country two SYStems //: The discourse intonation patterns of word associations by Winnie Cheng and Martin Warren | | 135 |
| Sect. III | | Exploring discourse in news and entertainment | | |
| 8 | | Whos speaking?: Evidentiality in US newspapers during the 2004 presidential campaign by Gregory Garretson and Annelie Adel | | 157 |
| 9 | | Television dialogue and natural conversation: Linguistic similarities and functional differences by Paulo Quaglio | | 189 |
| 10 | | A corpus approach to discursive constructions of a hip-hop identity by Kristy Beers Fagersten | | 211 |
| Sect. IV | | Exploring discourse through specific linguistic features | | |
| 11 | | The use of the it-cleft construction in 19th-century English by Christine Johansson | | 243 |
| 12 | | Place and time adverbials in native and non-native English student writing by William J. Crawford | | 267 |
| | | Author index | | 289 |
| | | Corpus and tools index | | 291 |
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