Discourse, Identities and Roles in Specialized Communication

The Editors: Giuliana Garzone is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her main research interests are in specialized discourse in its different domains, and in translation and interpreting studies. She has co-ordinated several research projects and published extensively on legal language, scientific discourse, business communication, political discourse and on translation and interpreting. In recent times her research has examined the impact of multimodality on professional communication, focusing on text types and genres embedded in the web-mediated environment. James Archibald teaches at McGill University, Montreal, where he chairs the Department of Translation Studies. He has also taught as an invited professor or research associate at the Centre de recherche des écoles de Coëtquidan Saint-Cyr (2004-2007), the Dipartimento di Lingue e culture contemporanee, Università degli Studi di Milano (2008), and the Centre des langues et de traduction, Université libanaise (2009 and 2010). A Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, he received the Francis W. Weeks Award of Merit from the Association for Business Communication in 2008. He is a member of the Office des professions du Québec.