The Discourses of Dispute Resolution

The Editors: Vijay K. Bhatia is a Visiting Professor of English at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests are: Genre Analysis; ESP and Professional Communication; simplification of legal and other public documents; cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary variations in professional genres. Two of his books, Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings and Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-based View, are widely used in genre theory and practice. Christopher N. Candlin is Senior Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research interests encompass discourse analysis and pragmatics, and their application to workplace and professional-client communication in the fields of law, dispute resolution, medicine and healthcare, and in disciplinary variation in academic discourse. Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre on Specialized Languages (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialized discourse. He is a member of the Editorial Board of national and international journals, and edits the Linguistic Insights series for Peter Lang.

Contents: Vijay K. Bhatia/Christopher N. Candlin/Maurizio Gotti: Introduction - Giuliana Garzone: Promoting Arbitration and Mediation on the Web - Paola Catenaccio: Framing the Discourses of Arbitration and Mediation: A Comparative Analysis - Stefania M. Maci: The Modus Operandi of Litigation in Arbitration - Anne Wagner: Acquiring Knowledge in the International Commercial Arbitration Space in France - Olga Denti/Michela Giordano: Till Money (and Divorce) Do us Part: Premarital Agreements in American and Spanish Legal Discourse - Larissa D'Angelo: Online Dispute Resolution in Italy: State of the Art and Future Perspectives - Celina Frade: Linguistic Pathologies in Arbitration Clauses - Michele Sala: Arguing the Case: Discoursal Aspects of Italian Commercial Arbitration - Chiara Degano: Indicators of Argumentation in Arbitration Awards: A Diachronic Perspective - Patrizia Anesa: Spoken Interaction in Arbitration: An Analysis of Italian Arbitration Proceedings - Girolamo Tessuto: US Commercial Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures: Linguistic and Discoursal Features of a Genre in Action - Alessandra Fazio: Variation in the Juridical Language of Sports Arbitration.