Researching Specialized Languages Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez Hernández, Pascual Pérez-Paredes (eds). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. 238 pages. ISBN: 978-90-272-0352-6. In the last few decades, the field of specialised languages (LSP) has attracted increasing attention not only as a discipline in itself but also as a multidisciplinary area which feeds from and serves other related disciplines. This collection of articles, edited by Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez Hernández and Pascual Pérez-Paredes, offers a varied and rich perspective on LSP with the insight of corpus analysis and discourse and genre analysis, among others. The volume represents a welcome and relevant contribution to the study of a wide range of topics within the domain of LSP, from micro-genres such as conference abstracts to the meta-analysis of the lexico- grammar of specialised discourses. This edited volume is divided into two sections: the first part, entitled “Research based on corpora”, includes six chapters which have in common the corpus-based approach they take in their respective studies. The second section, “Research based on meta-analysis and applications in LSP”, is made up of five chapters which apply meta-analysis as their main research methodology and offer interesting applications in the area of specialised languages. Chapter one, “The historical shift of scientific academic prose in English towards less explicit styles of expression: Writing without verbs”, by DOUgLAS BIBER and BETHANy gRAy, offers a historical analysis of the grammatical devices used in research articles to mark explicitness and structural elaboration, in contrast with the patterns found in conversation. The study draws on a 3-million-word corpus of research papers from four disciplines: Medicine, Education, Psychology and History. Pedagogical implications for the teaching of academic reading and writing at the university level are also discussed. The second chapter, “Heteroglossic (dis)engagement and the construal of the ideal readership: Dialogic spaces in academic texts”, by CARMEN PéREZ- LLANTADA AURíA, examines the rhetorical functionality of specific lexico- RESEñAS / BOOK REVIEWS Ibérica 27 (2014): 217-234 ISSN: 1139-7241 / e-ISSN: 2340-2784 211