Anna Trosborg, Ph.D. (Doctor.ling.merc.) is Professor of English and Reader in business communication at Aarhus School of Business, Denmark. She has been doing extensive research on professional discourse since 1989. Her recent academic production is in the fields of L2 teaching and learning, business pragmatics, genre analysis, legal speech acts, and business communication. She is currently teaching « Intercultural business communication and negotiation.