Current Trends in LSP Research

Margrethe Petersen is Associate Professor of English for Specific Purposes at Aarhus University. Her current research interests include the sociolinguistic aspects of the ‘internationalised’ university and academic knowledge communication.Jan Engberg is Professor of Knowledge Communication at Aarhus University. His research interests include legal communication, genre analysis, translation and the cognitive basis for the communication of expertise.

• Contents: Jan Engberg/Margrethe Petersen: Aims and Methods in LSP Research - Current Trends – Klaus Schubert: Specialized Communication Studies: An Expanding Discipline – Richard J. Alexander: ‘If money isn’t loosened up, this sucker could go down.’ How Top Politicians Talk about Financial Crises – Inger Askehave/Lise-Lotte Holmgreen: Cultural Awareness in a Corporate Context: What Constructions of ‘Culture’ May Reveal – Trine Dahl: The Ideal Informant: On the Use of Subject Specialists in Analyses of LSP Texts – Azirah Hashim/Richard Powell: Exploring Language Choice in Malaysian Trials and Arbitrations: Common Aims, Complementary Methods – Beyza Björkman: Investigating English as a Lingua Franca in Applied Science Education: Aims, Methods, Findings and Implications – Marianne Grove Ditlevsen: Towards a Methodological Framework for Knowledge Communication – Simona Sangiorgi: The ‘As If Game’ of Textual Hyperreality: A Case Study – Martin J. Eppler/Sabrina Bresciani/Margaret Tan/Klarissa Chang: Expanding the Boundaries of LSP Research: Using Intercultural Experiments to Examine the Role of Visual Representations in Text Comprehension and Retention – Frank C. Keil: The Problem of Partial Understanding – Christopher N. Candlin/Jonathan Crichton: Emergent Themes and Research Challenges: Reconceptualising LSP.