Danni Yu is an associate professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Her research interests include genre analysis, corpus-based studies, and cross-cultural studies (with a focus on Chinese, Italian and English discourses). Her profile can be found on her Research Gate account: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danni-Yu-3.

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• PART I Theoretical and methodological preliminaries 1 Introduction 2 Theoretical preliminaries: cross-cultural genre analysis 3 Methodology: Cross-cultural genre analysis PART II Doing cross-cultural genre analysis 4 Investigating genre context 5 Approaching genre complexity 6 Exploring genre nature: cross-cultural universality 7 Exploring culture specificity: a trilingual perspective 8 Focusing on specific communicative functions: how do different discourse communities realize a specific rhetorical act in a genre? PART III Applications, implications and some complementary details 9 Pedagogical application and theoretical and methodological implications 10 Complementary details: Focus on the moves

Danni Yu is an associate professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Her research interests include genre analysis, corpus-based studies, and cross-cultural studies (with a focus on Chinese, Italian and English discourses). Her profile can be found on her Research Gate account: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danni-Yu-3.

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• PART I Theoretical and methodological preliminaries 1 Introduction 2 Theoretical preliminaries: cross-cultural genre analysis 3 Methodology: Cross-cultural genre analysis PART II Doing cross-cultural genre analysis 4 Investigating genre context 5 Approaching genre complexity 6 Exploring genre nature: cross-cultural universality 7 Exploring culture specificity: a trilingual perspective 8 Focusing on specific communicative functions: how do different discourse communities realize a specific rhetorical act in a genre? PART III Applications, implications and some complementary details 9 Pedagogical application and theoretical and methodological implications 10 Complementary details: Focus on the moves

Danni Yu is an associate professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Her research interests include genre analysis, corpus-based studies, and cross-cultural studies (with a focus on Chinese, Italian and English discourses). Her profile can be found on her Research Gate account: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danni-Yu-3.

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• PART I Theoretical and methodological preliminaries 1 Introduction 2 Theoretical preliminaries: cross-cultural genre analysis 3 Methodology: Cross-cultural genre analysis PART II Doing cross-cultural genre analysis 4 Investigating genre context 5 Approaching genre complexity 6 Exploring genre nature: cross-cultural universality 7 Exploring culture specificity: a trilingual perspective 8 Focusing on specific communicative functions: how do different discourse communities realize a specific rhetorical act in a genre? PART III Applications, implications and some complementary details 9 Pedagogical application and theoretical and methodological implications 10 Complementary details: Focus on the moves