VIJAY BHATIA has research interests in genre analysis of academic and professional discourses in legal, business, newspaper, advertising contexts. He has widely published in all these areas as research articles, books chapters, edited volumes, and individually written books. Two of his books Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings and Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-based View, are widely used by researchers in genre theory and practice. Some of his recent research projects include Analyzing Genre-bending in Corporate Disclosure Documents, and International Arbitration Practice: A Discourse Analytical Study, in which he leads research teams from more than 20 countries. CHIARA DEGANO is a Tenured Researcher in English Linguistics and Translation at Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her research is centred on Discourse Analysis, which she has integrated with the quantitative approach of corpus linguistics and with aspects of Argumentation theory. Within this framework she has pursued a twofold line of research, focusing on the representation of international conflicts in the media, and on professional discourse, which she investigated in the perspective of ideological and evaluative elements, with specific reference to issues of identity. She has also taken part in an international project on arbitration, investigating generic tensions in international awards.

GIULIANA GARZONE is Full Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her main field of investigation is specialized discourse in its different domains, which she has explored in a discourse analytical perspective, integrating it whenever necessary with computerized interrogation routines, also in light of her work on the theoretical issues involved in combining Critical Discourse Analysis with Corpus Linguistics. She has co-ordinated several research projects and published extensively on legal language, on scientific discourse, and on business communication. In the latter domain, she has recently devoted specific attention to multimodality and to the analysis of text types and genres embedded in the web-mediated environment, an issue she has also investigated with reference to other types of communication, e.g. political communication.