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Recently the Bologna process has promoted mobility programs for students, endorsing the use of English at university. Nowadays, many non-English universities implement programs, creating a forum for national and international students. This situation requires that non-native lecturers master not only the discipline but also the language and the rhetoric of English lectures. Additionally, non- native students attending programs in English speaking universities face a similar situation, where language is not enough but they need to know this academic genre. This book adopts a ...

Discussion sessions of conference paper presentations are spontaneous and unpredictable, in contrast to the lectures that precede them. These can be challenging for presenters, mainly for novice ones. This study considers the multimodal nature of spoken discourse to explore presenters expression of evaluation and foreground the role of kinesics and paralanguage that co-occur with the linguistic utterances. The theoretical framework is embedded in techniques of genre and discourse analysis, including the theoretical orientations of systemic functional linguistics, conversation...