Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals provides cutting-edge insights into the nature of communication in interdisciplinary research domains.

Paul Thompson is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Disciplines and interdisciplinarity

Chapter 3 The BEE4 corpus

Chapter 4 Headings in the four journals

Chapter 5 Introductions (and beyond) in four journals

Chapter 6 Words in context: environment, science, important

Chapter 7 Status and disciplinarity

Chapter 8 An explanatory code gloss: in other words

Chapter 9 Multidimensional Analysis: variation between and within journals

Chapter 10 Topic Modelling: what a journal is about

Chapter 11 Conclusion