1. Introduction -- Current Approaches to Discourse Studies. 2. Speech Acts in Corpus Pragmatics: A Quantitative Contrastive Study of Directives in Spontaneous and Elicited Discourse -- 3. Black and White Metaphors and Metonymies in English and Spanish: A Cross-cultural and Corpus Comparison -- 4. Making Informed Healthy Lifestyle Choices: Analysing Aspects of Patient-centred and Doctor-centred Healthcare in Self-help Books on Cardiovascular Diseases -- 5. Women and Men Talking about Men and Women in Greek -- 6. Does Speaker Role Affect the Choice of Epistemic Adverbials in L2 Speech? Evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus -- Current Approaches to Translation Studies. 7. Source Language Interference in English-to-Chinese Translation -- 8. From the Other Side of the Looking Glass: A Cognitive-pragmatic Account of Translating Lewis Carroll -- 9. Connective items in Interpreting and Translation: Where do they come from? -- 10. Corpus Perspectives on Russian Discursive Units: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Contrastive Analysis -- 11. On Concluders and other Discourse Markers in the Concluding Moves of English and Italian Historical Research Articles -- 12.Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Public Service Interpreting and Training: The Case of Interpreters Working in Gender Violence Contexts -- Book Reviews. 13. Rachelle Vessey. Review on Zappavigna, M. (2012) Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How we Create Affiliation on the Web. London: Bloomsbury -- 14. Elaine Vaughan. Review on Aijmer, K. and B. Altenberg (2013) Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics. Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins -- 15. Keiko Tsuchiya. Review on Adolphs, S. and R. Carter (2013) Spoken Corpus Linguistics: from Monomodal to Multimodal. London: Routledge.