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Special section: Patterns of Language Variation and Change in Academic Writing

Guest editors: Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University of Technology), Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Olga Dontcheva Navratilova (Masaryk University) and Carmen Pérez-Llantada (University of Zaragoza)

Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University of Technology), Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Olga Dontcheva Navratilova (Masaryk University) and Carmen Pérez-Llantada (University of Zaragoza), Language variation and change in academic writing: Recent trends through globalisation and digitalisation

Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova (Masaryk University), Czech English-medium linguistics journals’ academic writing conventions: Continuity and change over the last 30 years

Marina Bondi and Jessica Jane Nocella (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Academic writing conventions in English-medium linguistics journals in Italy: Continuity and change over the last 30 years

Marina Ivanova (Chemnitz University of Technology), German English-medium linguistics journal abstracts over the last 30 years: Quantitative and qualitative structural developments

Giuliana Diani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Writing research article abstracts in English and Italian: Generic and cross-linguistic variation over the last 20 years

Krystyna Warchał (University of Silesia), Concluding sections over 30 years of research writing: The case of a Polish scholar

Josef Schmied and Marina Ivanova (Chemnitz University of Technology), English MA Theses at a German university before and after the Bologna reform: Comparing global structures and stance in linguistics and cultural studies

Tereza Guziurová (University of Ostrava), “The aim of this paper is…”: Frame markers in English as a lingua franca academic writing

Enrique Lafuente Millán (University of Zaragoza), European research project websites and related corporate websites: Patterns of evaluation and genre evolution

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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (University of Leiden), Acquiring epistolary literacy in nineteenth-century New England

Giulia Rovelli (University of Bergamo), Towards a historical corpus of Canadian English letters and diaries

Gloria Mambelli (University of Verona), “It is a long road from sorrow to joy”: Metaphors of happiness and sadness in Late Modern English private correspondence

Cecilia Lazzeretti (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Language, narrative and structure of storytelling in museum communication: A diachronic approach