Discourse Studies June 2016; Vol. 18, No. 3

Articles
Rethinking topos in the discourse historical approach: Endoxon seeking and argumentation in Greek media discourses on ‘Islamist terrorism’
Salomi Boukala

Request sequence in Chinese public service calls
Li Li and Wen Ma

Discourse analysis of statements of purpose: Connecting academic and professional genres
Carmen López-Ferrero and Carme Bach

Spelling out consequences: Conditional constructions as a means to resist proposals in organisational planning process
Riikka Nissi

Grammar emerges through reuse and modification of prior utterances
Danjie Su

Book reviews
Book review: Johannes Angermuller, Martin Nonhoff, Eva Herschinger, Felicitas Macgilchrist, Martin Reisigl, Juliette Wedl, Daniel Wrana and Alexander Ziem (eds), Diskursforschung: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, Band 1: Theorien, Methodologien und Kontroversen [Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Handbook, Volume 1: Theories, Methodologies and Controversies], Martin Nonhoff, Eva Herschinger, Johannes Angermuller, Felicitas Macgilchrist, Martin Reisigl, Juliette Wedl, Daniel Wrana and Alexander Ziem (eds), Diskursforschung: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, Band 2: Methoden und Praxis der Diskursanalyse: Perspektiven auf Hochschulreformdiskurse [Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Handbook, Volume 2: Methods and Practice of Discourse Analysis: Perspectives on the Discourses of University Reforms] and Daniel Wrana, Alexander Ziem, Martin Reisigl, Martin Nonhoff and Johannes Angermuller (eds), DiskursNetz: Wörterbuch der interdisziplinären Diskursforschung [DiscourseNet: Dictionary of Interdisciplinary Discourse Studies]
Jaspal Naveel Singh

Book review: Mary Catherine Gruber, ‘I’m Sorry for What I’ve Done’: The Language of Courtroom Apologies
Guofeng Wang

Book review: Edwin L Battistella, Sorry about That: The Language of Public Apology
Haoran Mao

Book review: Grażyna Anna Bednarek, Polish vs. American Courtroom Discourse: Inquisitorial and Adversarial Procedures of Witness Examination in Criminal Trials
Hanna H Wei

Book review: Kenneth Kong, Professional Discourse
Zhengrui Han

Book review: Mandana Seyfeddinpur and Marianne Gullberg (eds), From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance
Xu Zhiyuan

Book review: Tom Bartlett, Analysing Power in Language: A Practical Guide
Mohammad Makki

Book review: Stella Bullo, Evaluation in Advertising Reception: A Socio-cognitive and Linguistic Perspective
Zhang Daqun