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, language teaching particularly through the medium of advanced technologies, synchronic and diachronic lexicographic analysis mainly in the field of specialized language (economics and law). 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, institutional and professional discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, socio-cognitive pragmatics, ESP teaching and testing.

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