Introduction (Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova and Renata Povolná).- Part 1 - PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVES ON TEXT ANALYSIS.- Celebrating motherhood. Multimodal facework in Mother's Day advertisements (Jana Pelclová).- Persuasion by emotion in social media (Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Renata Povolna).- Part 2 - DISCOURSE ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TEXT ANALYSIS.- Presentation of direct speech in crosswriters' fiction for children and for adults (Markéta Malá).- The rhetoric of corruption: Analysing speeches of disgraced politicians (Ivana Kapráliková).- PART 3 - COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES ON TEXT ANALYSIS.- "What about" contexts?: A construction grammar account (Naoki Kiyama, Masanobu Ueda).- From text to linguistic structure: A semiotic study of through in six contemporary American novels (Ludmila Novotny).- Part 4 - CORPUS ANALYSIS PERSPECTIVES ON TEXT ANALYSIS.- 'I humbly believe that.': Stance expression in student and expert writing in linguistics (Daniel Gerrad).- Metadiscourse markers revisited: The influence of genre, language and the level of experience on academic text (Jolanta Sinkuniene).- Determination of modal meaning of will and být-future (bud-): Seeking analogies between English and Czech corporate annual reports (Radek Vogel).- PART 5 - ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES - BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN TEXT AND CONTEXT.- Exploring an effective academic English writing model: Teaching, learning and research oriented practices in Lithuania (Sonia Oliver).- Finding pedagogical value by rhetorically analysing scientific article introductions (Kristin Bivens, Maria Freddi, Eva Pedersen).- Part 6 - AI PERSPECTIVES ON TEXT GENERATION, ANALYSIS AND TEACHING.- Specialised discourse with agents? Beyond ChatGPT in academic English (Josef Schmied).