María Ángeles Orts (University of Murcia, Spain) teaches Professional English, especially in the areas of law, economy and business. She has published extensively on economic and legal lexicon, corruption crimes and gender violence, power and legitimation in legal texts, and the translation and interpretation of legal genres. Ruth Breeze is senior lecturer in English at the University of Navarra, Spain. Her most recent books are Corporate Discourse (Bloomsbury Academic 2015) and the co-edited volumes Essential Competencies for English-Medium University Teaching (Springer 2016) and Evaluation in Media Discourse: European Perspectives (Peter Lang 2017). Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Director of the Centre for LSP Research (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His main areas of investigation are the features and origins of specialized discourse.

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• María Ángeles Orts/Ruth Breeze: Introduction – Vijay K. Bhatia/Aditi Bhatia: Interdiscursive Manipulation in Media Reporting: The Case of the Panama Papers in India – Ana Bocanegra-Valle: Empowering the Discourse of Globalization in International Organizations: The International Maritime Organization as a Case in Point – Shirley Carter-Thomas/Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet: Maintaining a Dominant Voice: A Syntactic Analysis of the Way Power is Wielded in Medical Editorials – Giuliana Elena Garzone: Persuasive Strategies on Surrogacy Websites: A Discourse-Analytical and Rhetorical Study – Esther Monzó-Nebot: ‘Silence will Break my Bones’: The Presentation and Representation of Victims and Perpetrators at the Service of Just-world Views in Judicial Discourse – Pascual Pérez-Paredes: A Keyword Analysis of the 2015 UK Higher Education Green Paper and the Twitter Debate – Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler: Persuading against Gender Violence: An Interdiscursive Genre Analysis – Daniel Gallego-Hernández: Persuasion in Promotional Banking Products: A Comparative Corpus-based Study – Diana Giner: Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion in the Reasoning of International Investment Arbitral Awards – Maurizio Gotti: Power and Persuasion in Arbitration: East vs West – Juan C. Palmer-Silveira: Showing Power and Persuasion in Business Communication: The Corporate News Section in Websites and Social Media – Carmen Sancho Guinda: Transmitting Authority in Risk Communication: An Exploration of U.S. Air-Accident Dockets Online – Holly Vass: The Role of Hedging in Balancing Power and Persuasion in the Judicial Context: The Case of Majority and Dissenting Opinions

María Ángeles Orts (University of Murcia, Spain) teaches Professional English, especially in the areas of law, economy and business. She has published extensively on economic and legal lexicon, corruption crimes and gender violence, power and legitimation in legal texts, and the translation and interpretation of legal genres. Ruth Breeze is senior lecturer in English at the University of Navarra, Spain. Her most recent books are Corporate Discourse (Bloomsbury Academic 2015) and the co-edited volumes Essential Competencies for English-Medium University Teaching (Springer 2016) and Evaluation in Media Discourse: European Perspectives (Peter Lang 2017). Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Director of the Centre for LSP Research (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His main areas of investigation are the features and origins of specialized discourse.

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• María Ángeles Orts/Ruth Breeze: Introduction – Vijay K. Bhatia/Aditi Bhatia: Interdiscursive Manipulation in Media Reporting: The Case of the Panama Papers in India – Ana Bocanegra-Valle: Empowering the Discourse of Globalization in International Organizations: The International Maritime Organization as a Case in Point – Shirley Carter-Thomas/Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet: Maintaining a Dominant Voice: A Syntactic Analysis of the Way Power is Wielded in Medical Editorials – Giuliana Elena Garzone: Persuasive Strategies on Surrogacy Websites: A Discourse-Analytical and Rhetorical Study – Esther Monzó-Nebot: ‘Silence will Break my Bones’: The Presentation and Representation of Victims and Perpetrators at the Service of Just-world Views in Judicial Discourse – Pascual Pérez-Paredes: A Keyword Analysis of the 2015 UK Higher Education Green Paper and the Twitter Debate – Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler: Persuading against Gender Violence: An Interdiscursive Genre Analysis – Daniel Gallego-Hernández: Persuasion in Promotional Banking Products: A Comparative Corpus-based Study – Diana Giner: Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion in the Reasoning of International Investment Arbitral Awards – Maurizio Gotti: Power and Persuasion in Arbitration: East vs West – Juan C. Palmer-Silveira: Showing Power and Persuasion in Business Communication: The Corporate News Section in Websites and Social Media – Carmen Sancho Guinda: Transmitting Authority in Risk Communication: An Exploration of U.S. Air-Accident Dockets Online – Holly Vass: The Role of Hedging in Balancing Power and Persuasion in the Judicial Context: The Case of Majority and Dissenting Opinions

María Ángeles Orts (University of Murcia, Spain) teaches Professional English, especially in the areas of law, economy and business. She has published extensively on economic and legal lexicon, corruption crimes and gender violence, power and legitimation in legal texts, and the translation and interpretation of legal genres. Ruth Breeze is senior lecturer in English at the University of Navarra, Spain. Her most recent books are Corporate Discourse (Bloomsbury Academic 2015) and the co-edited volumes Essential Competencies for English-Medium University Teaching (Springer 2016) and Evaluation in Media Discourse: European Perspectives (Peter Lang 2017). Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Director of the Centre for LSP Research (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His main areas of investigation are the features and origins of specialized discourse.

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• María Ángeles Orts/Ruth Breeze: Introduction – Vijay K. Bhatia/Aditi Bhatia: Interdiscursive Manipulation in Media Reporting: The Case of the Panama Papers in India – Ana Bocanegra-Valle: Empowering the Discourse of Globalization in International Organizations: The International Maritime Organization as a Case in Point – Shirley Carter-Thomas/Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet: Maintaining a Dominant Voice: A Syntactic Analysis of the Way Power is Wielded in Medical Editorials – Giuliana Elena Garzone: Persuasive Strategies on Surrogacy Websites: A Discourse-Analytical and Rhetorical Study – Esther Monzó-Nebot: ‘Silence will Break my Bones’: The Presentation and Representation of Victims and Perpetrators at the Service of Just-world Views in Judicial Discourse – Pascual Pérez-Paredes: A Keyword Analysis of the 2015 UK Higher Education Green Paper and the Twitter Debate – Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler: Persuading against Gender Violence: An Interdiscursive Genre Analysis – Daniel Gallego-Hernández: Persuasion in Promotional Banking Products: A Comparative Corpus-based Study – Diana Giner: Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion in the Reasoning of International Investment Arbitral Awards – Maurizio Gotti: Power and Persuasion in Arbitration: East vs West – Juan C. Palmer-Silveira: Showing Power and Persuasion in Business Communication: The Corporate News Section in Websites and Social Media – Carmen Sancho Guinda: Transmitting Authority in Risk Communication: An Exploration of U.S. Air-Accident Dockets Online – Holly Vass: The Role of Hedging in Balancing Power and Persuasion in the Judicial Context: The Case of Majority and Dissenting Opinions