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This book covers a broad range of issues in the studies of text and discourse. It combines a theoretical framework with empirical engagement, and brings together various approaches to these two phenomena from the structural, functional and cognitive perspectives. While this topic has been widely discussed in recent years, such studies have mostly focused on specific language and discourse types. This work, however, presents the analysis of texts from American, British, Azerbaijani, French and Russian discourses across various types and genres, and adopts an exclusive focus on pragmatic and cognitive aspects. The study of these two aspects can help reveal not only global and local (cultural) identities, but also the specific features of their discourse types and genres. As such, the book also pays extensive attention to the role the studies of text and discourse can play in exploring globalization and intercultural communication.

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Azad Mammadov is Professor and Chair of the Department of General Linguistics at Azerbaijan University of Languages. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages in 1990 and his DSc in Linguistics from the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences in 2003. His research interests deal with discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and translation studies. He is the author of several books and numerous scholarly articles published in journals such as International Journal of Sociology of Language, Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, and Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies Journal, among others. He also translated Noam Chomsky's Language and Mind and Umberto Eco's Confessions of a Young Novelist into the Azerbaijani language.

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