Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse

The Editor: Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre on Specialized Languages (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialized discourse. He is a member of the editorial board of national and international journals, and edits the Linguistic Insights series for Peter Lang.

• Contents: Maurizio Gotti: Introduction – Ken Hyland: Constraint vs Creativity: Identity and Disciplinarity in Academic Writing – Paul Thompson: Shared Disciplinary Norms and Individual Traits in the Writing of British Undergraduates – Keith Richards: A Hard Act to Follow: Conference Debate and Student Argument – Laurie Anderson/Nicki Hargreaves/Nicky Owtram: Manifesting Identity in Situated Academic Writing: Institutional Factors and Individual Orientations in Writing by Post-graduate Students in an English as a Lingua Franca Context – Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: Collective and Individual Identities in Business Studies Lectures – Marina Bondi: Writing Economic History: The Narrator and the Arguer – Carmen Pérez-Llantada: Shifting Identities, Textual Responses and Conflicting Demands in Knowledge Construction Processes – Franca Poppi: How Stable is the Construction of an Author’s Professional Identity? Variations in Five Editions of P.A. Samuelson’s Economics – Susan Kermas: Disentangling the Gardening Metaphor in Kate Burridge’s Language Studies – Thomas Christiansen: The Creation of Evolution: Religion and Science in the Lexis and Conceptual Frames of the Works of Charles Darwin – Maurizio Gotti: Aspects of Individuality in J.M. Keynes’ General Theory – Martin Solly: Using Language to Shape Identity in Academic Discourse: The Case of Disclaimers and Provisos – Sara Gesuato: Evaluation Guidelines: A Regulatory Genre Informing Reviewing Practices – William Bromwich: Identity, Anonymity and Appraisal: Discourse Processes in Double-Blind Peer Review – Sandra Campagna: Projecting Visual Reasoning in Research Conference Presentations.