Dontcheva-Navratilova and Povolna's collection is an informative and well-structured contribution to the complex area of studies in discourse representation and interpretation. Combining theoretical (Part I) and empirical (Part II) insights from authors working at the intersection of critical linguistics, socio-pragmatics and stylistics, it offers tools to scrutinize many of the central questions in this heterogeneous and challenging field.Piotr Cap, University of ÅòdźThis volume focuses on discourse interpretation in very different discourses. Apart from the two introductory more theoretical chapters, this volume provides a wealth of empirical examples and analyses. The genres discussed range from political texts (like political advertising or opening addresses of conferences) to academic genres (like research articles and social-science textbooks), journalistic writing (like crime reports and life-style magazines), and interpersonal texts (like complements and short stories). This remarkable spread proves that new discourse pragmatic concepts can be fruitfully applied to many domains. It makes this volume interesting to many readers in all subdisciplines of English, either to catch up with latest empirical research or to gain inspiration for further work in the modern analysis of discourse. This collection is therefore highly welcome.

Josef Schmied, Chemnitz University of Technology.