English Text Construction (ETC) is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal of English Studies published by John Benjamins (Amsterdam & Philadelphia). The journal offers a forum for currently converging tendencies that place the text-constructing subject in centre stage across the three disciplines of English studies, viz. literary studies, linguistics and applied linguistics. The journal mainly publishes scientific articles presenting results of original research and book reviews, but also seeks to publish in-depth review articles covering the current state of the art on a given research topic as well as squibs stirring debate on a particular point of interest.