IntroductionSheena Gardner and Sian AlsopPART I. TEXTS THAT ARE BORN DIGITAL: NEW DIGITAL GENRES1. "There's power in stories": A Multimodal Corpus-Based and Functional Analysis of Fandom Blogs Maria Grazia Sindoni, University of Messina, Italy2. Digitality and Persuasive Technologies: Towards an SFL Model of New Social Actions and Practices in Digital Settings Sandra Petroni, University of Rome Tor Vergata 3. Digital Citizenship: Social Actors in Blog Posts to Chilean Online News Portals Lesmer Montecino and Maria Cristina Arancibia, both at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile4. Imagined Community and Affective Alignment in Steve Jobs Memorial Tributes on YouTube Anu Harju, Aalto University School of Business 5. Commenting, Interacting, Reposting: A Systemic-Functional Analysis of Online Newspaper Comments Mariavita Cambria, University of Messina, ItalyPART II. TEXTS THAT ACHIEVE DIGITALITY: PROFESSIONAL GENRES RECONTEXTUALISED6. "We're hearing from Reuters that.": The Role of Around-the-Clock News Media in the Increased Use of the Present Progressive with Mental Process Type Verbs Ben Clarke, University of Portsmouth 7. The Construal of Terminal Illness in Online Medical Texts: Social Distance and Semantic Space Meriel Bloor, University of Warwick 8. Moving Online to Teach Academic Writing in Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice Helen Drury, Sydney University9. Cut and Paste: Recontextualizing Meaning-Material in a Digital Environment Daniel Lees Fryer, Ostfold University College, Norway10. Analysis of an Online University Lecture: Multimodal Perspectives Mersini Karagevrekis, University of Macedonia, Greece11. Transitivity in Language Event Reports in an Online Corpus of Science Journalism Blanca Garcia Riaza, University of Salamanca, Spain12. Is This the End of Hypertext? Hotel Websites' Return to Linearity Martin Kaltenbacher, University of SalzburgPART III. TEXTS THAT HAVE DIGITALITY THRUST UPON THEM: SUPER POWERS IN TEXT ANALYSIS 13. On Negotiating the Hurdles of Corpus-Assisted Appraisal Analysis in Verbal Art Donna R. Miller, University of Bologna 14. Diachronic Change from Washington to Obama: The Challenges and Constraints of Corpus-Assisted Meaning Analysis Paul Bayley and Cinzia Bevitori, both at University of Bologna 15. The Role of Corpus Annotation in the SFL-CL Marriage: A Test Case on the EU Debt Crisis Sabrina Fusari, University of Bologna 16. Grammatical Metaphor through the Lens of Software? Examining 'Crisis' in a Corpus of Articles from The Financial Times Antonella Luporini, University of Bologna 17. A Corpus Approach to Method of Development: Discourse Markers and Presuming Reference in 32 ICE-GB Text Types Michael Cummings, York University, Toronto 18. Journey of Three Digitised Texts: Entextualisation and Recontextualisation in a Corpus Study Tom Morton, Birkbeck, University of London, and Anne McCabe, St Louis University, Madrid Campus 19. Annotating Cohesive Ellipses in an English-German Corpus Katrin Menzel, Saarland University, Germany20. Linguistic Characteristics of Schizophrenia and Mania Computationally Revealed Ekaterina Shagalov, Dixilang Company, and Jonathan Fine+, Bar-Ilan University
