ABSTRACT
This chapter explores several dimensions of the interaction between language and writing in academic settings through both a retrospective and a forward-looking lens. Focusing just on developments taking place, there has been a proliferation of collective volumes in the form of edited books and special issues in flagship journals that collectively attest to this disciplinary interest, evidencing at the same time the multidimensional and situated nature of the phenomenon in focus. Text-oriented scholarship has applied different lenses to the of the characteristics of second language (L2) writers' texts and their development, while it has also heavily engaged in linguistic explorations of academic discourses and research genres. An important psycholinguistically oriented research preoccupation on the interaction between language and writing with a long tradition in L2 writing studies is the inquiry into the linguistic processing that takes place during writing and the range of potentially mediating writer-internal and writer-external variables.
