Disciplinary differences : language variation in academic discourses / Ken Hyland -- 'A case in point' : signals of narrative development in business and economics / Marina Bondi -- Introducing abstract reasoning : world of reference and writer argument across disciplines / Marc Silver -- Relations between text and mathematics across disciplines / Philip Shaw -- Gaps and false conclusions : criticism in research article abstracts across the disciplines / Hilkka Stotesbury -- Book acknowledgements across disciplines and texts / Davide Simone Giannoni -- Gender and discipline : exploring metadiscourse variation in academic book reviews / Polly Tse, Ken Hyland -- "We now report on--" versus "Let us now see how--" : author roles and interaction with readers in research articles / Kjersti Fløttum, Torodd Kinn and Trine Dahl -- The choice and use of epistemic modality markers in linguistics and medical research articles / Eva Thue Vold -- A corpus perspective on the lexis of lectures, with a focus on economics lectures / Paul Thompson -- Speaking the discipline : discourse and socialisation in ELF and L1 English / Anna Mauranen -- Academic speech across disciplines : lexical and phraseological distinction / Rita C. Simpson-Vlach.