I-IV -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Values, attitudes, and doings -- Cross-cultural academic communication: a discourse-community view -- Academic writing and cultural identity: the case of Czech academic writing -- Doing well ... doing badly: An analysis of the role of conflicting cultural values in judgments of relative "academic achievement" -- Language culture, language awareness, and writing curricula in Polish schools -- The signs of a new time: academic writing in ESP curricula of Ukrainian universities -- Developing awareness of the rhetorical and linguistic conventions of writing a thesis in English: addressing the needs of EFL/ESL postgraduate students -- Mind your metaphors! Historical and theoretical notes toward a constructivist theory of metaphor in scientific communication -- Systems of reference in intellectual discourse: a potential source of intercultural stereotypes -- Part 2 Interpersonal meanings in academic discourse: The case of hedging -- Modalization: Probability - an exploration into its role in academic writing -- Some observations on the distribution and function of hedging in German and English academic writing -- Hedging in English and Bulgarian academic writing -- The effects of hedges and gender on the attitudes of readers in the United States toward material in a science textbook -- Part 3 Variation in the genre -- Journal abstracts from three academic fields in the United States and Sweden: national or disciplinary proclivities? -- Research article introductions in Malay: Rhetoric in an emerging research community -- If not given, then what? Things that come first in academic discourse -- Analyzing digressiveness in Polish academic texts -- Inference in science and popular science -- Index