Issue XV/2 – Autumn 2006 – The ESSE Messenger

Cover design, image and advertisement manipulation by Kristian Stotesbury, Mäntsälä, Finland.
Photographs: Front Cover (“Autumn Leaves”) and image p. 3: photographs by John A Stotesbury; photograph p. 4 adapted from an image supplied by Fernando Galván; photograph p. 11 supplied by Stephen Romer; photograph p. 24 adapted from an image supplied by José Miguel Alonso Giráldez.
Production assistant: Joao Paulo Moreira, Coimbra, Portugal.

ESSE MATTERS

The ESSE President’s Column, p. 2

A Letter from the New ESSE president, Fernando Galván, p. 4

ESSE Budget for 2007, p. 4

Words Spoken at the British Museum: Warwick Gould; Elisabeth Jay, p. 6

Letters to the Editor, p. 9

Editorial Note & ESSE Website Messenger PDF Password, p. 10

ESSE-9 Conference, Århus, 22-26 August 2008, p. 11

ESSE Bursaries for 2007, p. 17

EJES: Re-launch and Calls for Contributions, p. 21

ESSE Book Award 2008; ESSE Book Award Winners 2006, p. 33

University-English, p. 38

POETRY

Stephen Romer, Poems, p. 13

Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski, Stephen Romer: A Poet in Translation, p. 18

Download p. 13-20

Bernard O’Donoghue, Poems, p. 25
José Miguel Alonso Giráldez, From Seamus Heaney to Bernard O’Donoghue: Visions of the Real and the Unreal Ireland, p. 27

Download pp. 25-33

ARTICLES

Ken Hyland, The “Other” English: Thoughts on EAP and Academic Writing, p. 34

Philip Shaw, Text Purpose, Text Effects, Text Power: English for Specific Purposes, p. 39

Maurizio Gotti, Creating a Corpus for the Analysis of Identity Traits in English Specialised Discourse, p. 44

Michael Hoey, Clumsy English, p. 48

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INTERVEWS

José Francisco Fernández,Beckett and His Biographer: An Interview withJames Knowlson, p. 58

Lidia Vianu,Interviewing Peter Ackroyd (Part 1), p. 64

Download pp. 58-69

BOOK REVIEWS

Patrick Parrinder, José Antonio Álvarez Amorós, Gerald Porter, Nic Panagopoulos, Wanda Balzano, David Dickinson, Valentina Pontolillo D’Elia, p. 70