Contents -- NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH Introduction 9 -- Section 1 Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics -- NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH The Contribution of Discourse Analysis to Research on Social Change 25 -- PAULBAYLEY Terror in Political Discourse from the Cold War to the Unipolar World 49 -- ALISONDUGUID Soundbiters Bit. Contracted Dialogistic Space and the Textual Relations of the No. 10 Team Analysed through Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies 73 -- DOUGLAS PONTON When is it Reasonable to Cooperate? Tony Blair's Statement on the Iraqi Crisis 95 -- CAROLINECLARK A War of Words: A Linguistic Analysis of BBC Embed Reports during the Iraq Conflict 119 -- Section 2 Language Variation and Social Change -- MAURIZIOGOTTI Globalisation and Discursive Changes in Specialised Contexts 143 -- FREDGARDAPHÉ Language in Fiction: Italian at Work in Italian American Novels 173 -- PATRIZIAARDIZZONE Whose Language Counts? Language Policy in the United States and Contemporary Social Change 193 -- MARINADOSSENA Scots in Institutional Discourse: "Walcome til the Scottish Pairlament Wabsite" 213 -- SIRIAGUZZO Multilingualism and Language Variation in the British Isles: The Case of the Bedford Italian Community 233 -- MARTINSOLLY Linguistic Choice in Contemporary Educational Reform 259 -- Section 3 Language, Social Cognition and Ideology -- TEUNA. VAN DIJK Comments on Context and Conversation 281 -- ROBERTVISCUSI Italy: Two Episodes in the History of a National Brand 317 -- JOHNDOUTHWAITE Ideology, Language and Gender Identity in a Detective Story 331 -- GIUSEPPINACORTESE Perspectivity in Human Rights Treaty Ratification: The Convention on the Rights of the Child 355 -- FEDERICAFERRARI G. W. Bush's Public Speeches to the Nation: Exploiting Emotion in Persuasion… 381 -- Section 4 Media/Multimedia Analysis of Social Change.

MARINABONDI Key-words and Emotions: A Case Study of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry 407 -- AMELIEKUTTER Petitioner or Partner? Constructions of European Integration in Polish Print Media Debates on the EU Constitutional Treaty 433 -- J.W. UNGER/ JANESUNDERLAND Gendered Discourses in a Contemporary Animated Film: Subversion and Confirmation of Gender Stereotypes in Shrek 459 -- GIUSEPPEBALIRANO De-stereotyping Otherness: A Multimodal Script Analysis of Semiotically Expressed Humour 487 -- MAXINELIPSON The Ubiquitous Machine: Visual Texts in the BBC Coverage of the Iraqi Conflict 507 -- IRATORRESI Quick Temper, Hot Blood: The Filmic Representation of Italian-American Speech and Rhetorical Strategies 531 -- Notes on Contributors 549.