• the ways in which writers write if they are writing for an interdisciplinary audience as well as for a specialist disciplinary audience;
• the different natures and instances of the term 'interdisciplinarity'; and
• whether an analysis of the rhetorical contexts in which research is relayed to interdisciplinary audiences is critical to understanding interdisciplinary research activities and communications.

Written by two leading figures in the field of Corpus Linguistics, this is an essential text for researchers and upper-level undergraduates working in the areas of Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis and Linguistics in areas of interdisciplinary communication.