The Texture of Internet

Santiago Posteguillo is senior lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Universitat Jaume I, Castello, Spain. He is also president of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, and a member of the Editorial Board of the international journals English for Specific Purposes and Written Communication. His latest publications include Netlinguistics: Language, Discourse and Ideology in Internet (2003) and the recent Spanish Computing Dictionary: English-Spanish, Spanish-English (2004). Maria Jose Esteve is assistant lecturer at the Universitat Jaume I, where she teaches English Language and Literature, and English for Specific Purposes. Her research involves scientific language, especially from a historical perspective, and corpus linguistics. She is co-editor of the recently published volume Teaching and Learning the English Language from a Discourse Perspective (2005).Maria Lluisa Gea Valor lectures in English Language and English for Specific Purposes at the same university. Her research interests lie in the field of genre analysis, especially academic and digital genres, and also evaluative discourse. She is the author of A Pragmatic Approach to Politeness and Modality in the Book Review (2000).Dr. Posteguillo, Dr. Esteve and Dr. Gea have organised the two International Conferences on Internet and Language, held at the Universitat Jaume I in 2003 and 2005. They have recently edited the volume entitled Language @ Work: Language Learning, Discourse and Translation Studies in Internet. They are all members of the Institut interUniversitari de Llenguees Modernes Aplicades (IULMA) and of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE).