Introduction Functional and Corpus Perspectives in Contrastive Discourse Analysis Maite Taboada, Susana Doval Suárez and Elsa González Álvarez 1. Discourse Markers and Coherence Relations: Comparison across Markers, Languages and Modalities Maite Taboada and María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2. Pragmatic Triangulation and Misunderstanding: A Prosodic Perspective Jesús Romero-Trillo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 3. Spanish venga and its English Equivalents: A Contrastive Study of Teenage Talk Anna-Britta Stenström, University of Bergen, Norway 4. Discourse Markers in French and German: Reasons for an Asymmetry Séverine Adam and Martine Dalmas, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France 5. Thematic Parentheticals in Dutch and English Mike Hannay, VU University Amsterdam, and María de los Ángeles Gómez González 6. Word Order and Information Structure in English and Swedish Jennifer Herriman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 7. The Use of It-clefts in the Written Production of Spanish Advanced Learners of English Susana Doval Suárez and Elsa González Álvarez 8.
Annotating Thematic Features in English and Spanish: A Contrastive Corpus-based Study Jorge Arús Hita, Julia Lavid and Lara Moratón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 9. Topic and Topicality in Text: A Contrastive Study of English and Spanish Narrative Texts Raquel Hidalgo and Angela Downing, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 10. Towards a Comparison of Cohesive Reference in English and German: System and Text Kerstin Kunz and Erich Steiner, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany 11. Genre- and Culture-specific Aspects of Evaluation: Insights from the Contrastive Analysis of English and Italian Online Property Advertising Gabrina Pounds, University of East Anglia, UK 12. Contrastive Analysis of Evaluation in Text: Key Issues in the Design of an Annotation System for Attitude Applicable to Consumer Reviews in English and Spanish Maite Taboada and Marta Carretero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 13. An Annotation Scheme for Dynamic Modality in English and Spanish Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla and Marta Carretero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 14. Corpus Analysis and Phraseology: Transfer of Multi-word Units Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 15. Lying as a Metaphor in a Bilingual Phraseological Corpus (German-Spanish) Ana Mansilla, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.