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.