the book Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple Perspectives on Written Academic

Genres represents the physical outcome of some of the best contributions presented in the International Conference on “Interpersonality in Written Academia Discourse: Perspectives across Languages and Cultures”. The conference, which took place in Jaca in December 2008 (University of Saragossa, Spain) was initiated and organized by the research Group InterLAE. Encroaching on different trends in the analysis of written academic discourse – among them contrastive rhetoric (Connor, 1996), academic discourse (Hyland, 2009), evaluation (Hunston & Thompson, 2001), and genre (Swales, 1990 & 2004) – the papers included in this volume approach the issue of reader-oriented view of writing (Hoey, 2001), social interaction or interpersonality (Hyland, 2004 & 2010; Flottum, 2007) in a wide range of disciplines such as business organisation, economics, law, linguistics, literature, medicine, psychology and physics, from different angles and perspectives. Apart from the research article, which is the main focus of the volume, the list of other analysed academic genres is equally large (abstracts, book reviews, referee reports, electronic popularizations, academic weblogs, student essays and conference handouts). Four sections shape the book. The first one, composed by three chapters and entitled “Interpersonality at Work”, provides a summary of the research undertaken under three European research groups on interpersonality in written discourse and functions as an introduction to the following contributions. The first chapter by LAFUENTE-MILLáN, MUR-DUEñAS, LORéS-SANZ and VáZqUEZ-ORTA is an overview of the cross-disciplinary