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The book brings together a rich variety of perspectives on abstracts as an academic genre. Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the studies collected here combine attention to generic structure with emphasis on language variation and change, thus offering a multi-perspective view on a genre that is becoming one of the most important in present-day research communication. The chapters are organized into three sections, each one offering distinct but sometimes combined perspectives on the exploration of this academic genre. The first section looks at variation across cultures through studies comparing English with Spanish, Italian and German, while also including considerations on variation across genders or the native/non-native divide. The second section centres on variation across disciplines and includes a wide range of studies exploring disciplinary identities and communities, as well as different degrees of centrality in the disciplinary community. The third and final section explores language and genre change by looking at how authorial voice and metadiscourse have changed over the past few decades under the influence of different media and different stakeholders.

This work features a comprehensive exploration of dialogue studies, beginning with introductory remarks and reflections on the field's evolution and future directions. Key topics include the structure and processes of dialogue, understanding strategies, and the application of complexity theories to dialogue analysis. Contributions delve into various aspects, such as discourse particles, the potential for computer conversations, and forensic linguistic evaluations of police evidence. The media's role in public oral discourse is also examined. The second part presents a range of papers addressing misunderstandings in Internet Relay Chat, group dialogues in literature, and the dynamics of polite versus polemical disputation. It includes studies on metadiscursive triads, everyday discourse on immigration, and interactions with patients, alongside historical analyses of dialogical structures in controversies. Additionally, it covers rhetorical strategies in parliamentary discourse, politeness in online forums, and the interplay of cultural differences in dialogue. Other contributions investigate the nuances of exclamatives and interrogatives, the construction of credibility in courtroom testimonies, and the impact of discourse practices in confrontational media interviews. The collection culminates in discussions of dialogic action games and the normative expectations surrounding news interviews, offering a rich tapestry of insig