Paola Evangelisti Allori is Senior Professor of English and English Linguistics at the Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Foro Italico’ where she also served as Director of the Language Centre and Head of the Department of Education for Sport and Human Movement. Her research has focused on the language/culture interaction in domain specific-discourse both academic and professional, and has published extensively on comparative analyses of specialized discourse in various disciplinary areas and fields of action.

• Contents: Paola Evangelisti Allori: Discourse and Identity. Representations in and across Cultures – Maria Cristina Paganoni: Political Identity on the Net: David Cameron’s Blog – Caliendo Giuditta/Piga Antonio: Framing Identity through the Virtual Channels of EU Institutional Communication – Cynthia Kellett Bidoli: Identity Issues in Audiovisual Translation across the Deaf/Hearing Cultural Divide – Michele Sala: Cross-disciplinary Identity-forming Strategies in Research Articles – Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: The Multiple Identities of the Business Academic – Larissa D’Angelo: Identity Conflicts in Book Reviews: a Cross-cultural Analysis – Davide Simone Giannoni: The Significance of ‘Significant’: Value Marking across Disciplinary Cultures – Martin Solly: ‘Giving the Graduates an Earful’: Identity and Interaction in Commencement Speeches – Sara Laviosa: Drifts in the Priming of Anglicisms in Business Communication – Franca Poppi: English as a Lingua Franca: Negotiating Identity in Cross-cultural Encounters between Native and Non-native Speakers – Dawang Huang: Constructing Writer Identity across Community Boundaries. The Socialization of a Local-educated Chinese Researcher – Jane Lung: The Process of Internalizing Professional Identity through Specific Disciplinary Knowledge – Liisa Timonen/Marjo Piironen: Supporting the Development of Professional Identity through Intercultural Communication and Language Courses – Paola Vettorel: Identity and Culture in Teaching English as an International Language: a Possible Model for a ‘Third Place’.

Paola Evangelisti Allori is Senior Professor of English and English Linguistics at the Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Foro Italico’ where she also served as Director of the Language Centre and Head of the Department of Education for Sport and Human Movement. Her research has focused on the language/culture interaction in domain specific-discourse both academic and professional, and has published extensively on comparative analyses of specialized discourse in various disciplinary areas and fields of action.

• Contents: Paola Evangelisti Allori: Discourse and Identity. Representations in and across Cultures – Maria Cristina Paganoni: Political Identity on the Net: David Cameron’s Blog – Caliendo Giuditta/Piga Antonio: Framing Identity through the Virtual Channels of EU Institutional Communication – Cynthia Kellett Bidoli: Identity Issues in Audiovisual Translation across the Deaf/Hearing Cultural Divide – Michele Sala: Cross-disciplinary Identity-forming Strategies in Research Articles – Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: The Multiple Identities of the Business Academic – Larissa D’Angelo: Identity Conflicts in Book Reviews: a Cross-cultural Analysis – Davide Simone Giannoni: The Significance of ‘Significant’: Value Marking across Disciplinary Cultures – Martin Solly: ‘Giving the Graduates an Earful’: Identity and Interaction in Commencement Speeches – Sara Laviosa: Drifts in the Priming of Anglicisms in Business Communication – Franca Poppi: English as a Lingua Franca: Negotiating Identity in Cross-cultural Encounters between Native and Non-native Speakers – Dawang Huang: Constructing Writer Identity across Community Boundaries. The Socialization of a Local-educated Chinese Researcher – Jane Lung: The Process of Internalizing Professional Identity through Specific Disciplinary Knowledge – Liisa Timonen/Marjo Piironen: Supporting the Development of Professional Identity through Intercultural Communication and Language Courses – Paola Vettorel: Identity and Culture in Teaching English as an International Language: a Possible Model for a ‘Third Place’.

Paola Evangelisti Allori is Senior Professor of English and English Linguistics at the Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Foro Italico’ where she also served as Director of the Language Centre and Head of the Department of Education for Sport and Human Movement. Her research has focused on the language/culture interaction in domain specific-discourse both academic and professional, and has published extensively on comparative analyses of specialized discourse in various disciplinary areas and fields of action.

• Contents: Paola Evangelisti Allori: Discourse and Identity. Representations in and across Cultures – Maria Cristina Paganoni: Political Identity on the Net: David Cameron’s Blog – Caliendo Giuditta/Piga Antonio: Framing Identity through the Virtual Channels of EU Institutional Communication – Cynthia Kellett Bidoli: Identity Issues in Audiovisual Translation across the Deaf/Hearing Cultural Divide – Michele Sala: Cross-disciplinary Identity-forming Strategies in Research Articles – Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: The Multiple Identities of the Business Academic – Larissa D’Angelo: Identity Conflicts in Book Reviews: a Cross-cultural Analysis – Davide Simone Giannoni: The Significance of ‘Significant’: Value Marking across Disciplinary Cultures – Martin Solly: ‘Giving the Graduates an Earful’: Identity and Interaction in Commencement Speeches – Sara Laviosa: Drifts in the Priming of Anglicisms in Business Communication – Franca Poppi: English as a Lingua Franca: Negotiating Identity in Cross-cultural Encounters between Native and Non-native Speakers – Dawang Huang: Constructing Writer Identity across Community Boundaries. The Socialization of a Local-educated Chinese Researcher – Jane Lung: The Process of Internalizing Professional Identity through Specific Disciplinary Knowledge – Liisa Timonen/Marjo Piironen: Supporting the Development of Professional Identity through Intercultural Communication and Language Courses – Paola Vettorel: Identity and Culture in Teaching English as an International Language: a Possible Model for a ‘Third Place’.