Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Index of Figures -- Index of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Meta-discourse, spoken discourse, stance-taking -- 2 Meta-discourse: definitions, strategies and functions -- 3 The epistemological value of the investigation of spoken discourse -- Part II: Methodological considerations -- 4 Subject of analysis, corpus, and annotation scheme -- Part III: Meta-discourse in spoken Italian -- 5 Meta-discourse and speaker-oriented domain -- 6 Meta-discourse and textual domain -- 7 Meta-discourse and interpersonal domain -- 8 Summary and conclusions -- References