Academic Discourse – New Insights into Evaluation

The Editors : Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti is Professor of English and member of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Florence. Her key research interests include the pragmatic and discursive analysis of both narrative and academic/professional texts with special attention to the language of evaluation and intersubjective stance from a historical perspective. Her recent research focuses on both late medieval narratives and economics/business texts from the nineteenth century.
Elena Tognini Bonelli is Professor of English Language in the Faculty of Economics, University of Siena, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Her main research interest lies in corpus linguistics both from a theoretical and an applied perspective. Her recent research focuses on the language of argumentation and evaluation in business and economics.