Space, Time and the Construction of Identity ― Discursive Indexicality in Cultural, Institutional and Professional Fields

Linguists of the English language at five Italian universities rethink the notion of keywords in relation to phraseology, the influence of the cognitive factors of time and space in the construction of identity, and the integration of discourse analysis with corpus linguistics. Among the topics are the construction of academic identity in English and Italian university lectures, the shaping of identities in the annual reports of the European Central Bank and the central banks of European Union member states, identity and the linguistic construction of space and place in diasporic films, unboundedness and grounding in corporate webcasting events, and a phrasological approach to managing reputation through the discursive reconstruction of corporate identity. The volume is not indexed. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rita Salvi is full professor in English Linguistics and Translation in the Faculty of Economics, ?Sapienza? University of Rome. Her research interests include general and applied linguistics, text and genre analysis, intercultural discourse for academic and professional purposes, analysis of specialized languages (economics and law). She serves as reviewer for journals, book publishers and research funding entities.
Janet Bowker is a tenured researcher and adjunct professor in English Linguistics and Translation in the Faculty of Economics, ?Sapienza? University of Rome. Her research interests lie mainly in academic and professional discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and socio-cognitive pragmatics. Her self-compiled specialised corpora of business discourse have been used to investigate a variety of topics including the processes of description, evaluation and persuasion in internal and intercultural corporate discourse, and multimodality, genre and register in virtual professional space.