This book approaches the issue of ideology in specialized communication in professional institutional and disciplinary settings across domains as diverse as law healthcare corporate management migration NGOs etc. What unites the contributors is their commitment to a discourse view of language use i.e. the view that organisational and professional practices are rooted in social ideological orders although a variety of perspectives on the exact nature of the relationship between ideology and discourse can be discerned in individual chapters. The acts of interpretation by participants and analysts alike are invested in ideology explicitly or implicitly. This manifesthidden duality surrounding ideologyindiscourse constitutes the main focus. Challenging the traditional presumption of objectivity impersonality and noninvolvement that has often characterized research on Language for Specic Purposes this book demonstrates how the specialized communication setting is a critical site where ideology is intrinsically embodied in discursive practices.