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The title of this volume intentionally echoes a significant issue of Textus on "Languaging" in Human Groups, edited by Giuseppina Cortese and Dell Hymes in 2001, as the concept of ‘languaging’ encapsulates the essence of Giuseppina Cortese's life and work, to whom the book is dedicated. It features contributions from distinguished scholars that illuminate current developments in discourse analysis, particularly regarding recent research on speech communities and communities of practice. The volume is structured into sections that serve as threads for a new investigation into ‘languaging’. The first section, Languaging Awareness, examines recent findings in applied linguistics, focusing on language acquisition, learning, teaching, and the evolving role of media. The second section, Languaging Identity, emphasizes the construction of identity in text and talk within a linguistic framework. The third section, Languaging Community, investigates the concept of community, exploring the lifeworld and textworld across various domains. It closely analyzes contemporary events and illustrates how the memory of the past enriches discourse analysis, aligning with Cortese’s approach to linguistic and textual awareness.

This volume explores genres in Web-mediated communication in a discourse-analytical perspective, focusing in particular on genre change and evolution under the pressure of technological renewal, the availability of new affordances, and the consequent emergence of new generic conventions that challenge traditional genre theory. The chapters are organised in an ideal progression from websites and more ‘traditional’ Web applications to Web 2.0 communicative platforms, characterised as they are by user participation and user-generated content, focusing in the final section on blogging and microblogging as the applications that are most representative of the properties of the new platforms. In all chapters the starting point is an awareness of the need to renew or adapt existing analytical tools to make them applicable to the new objects of investigation.