Preface

This preface briefly illustrates the results of the research project "Tension and Change in English Domain-specific genres" coordinated at national level by Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo) and exploring genre-related issues: hybridization, tension, genre variation/evolution, creation of new genres and influences across genres in English domain-specific genres. The preface opens up a volume with contributions by scholars researching in the field of genre, including Norman Fairclough and Srikant Sarangi, who have won world renown for their scientific publications. The contributions have attempted to provide answers to a number of research questions involving current genre-related issues in private and public, institutional and professional communication, such as impact of globalization and the new technologies on discourses / genres, intertextuality and interdiscursivity drawing on corporate/promotional communication practices and strategies in processes of resemioticization and recontextualization across the media.