Oral Communication in English: Established Trends, Good Practice(s), and Future Perspectives

This special issue of 'Textus' contains a collection of papers covering
a wide range of contexts in which oral communication can take
place, focusing on different domains, participants and levels of
specialisation and dealing with issues ranging from segmental to
suprasegmental phonetics and phonology, from variation in spoken
language to the interface between phonology, morphology and
syntax, as well as all its teaching issues. The development and state
of the art of theoretical and applied research in the field may be
found in the eleven texts published here. Thus, a constant exchange
between theory and practice is the common thread running through
the whole volume.