Institutional Language and Discourse in International Organizations is a corpus-based research which explores the ideational and interpersonal dimensions of the meaning-making process in a number of periodical reports published by three international organizations - FAO, WHO and the WTO. In particular, the text type profile of the reports and the handling of the linguistic and pragmalinguistic categories of modality and person are examined. A genre-analytical perspective aiming to identify regularities in the cognitive-rhetorical pattern and to uncover possible signs of interdiscursivity is...