PAPERS IN THIS SPECIAL ISSUE ON ESP: Editorial (1-12); Parallel ESAP courses: What are they? Why do we need them? (13-30); Translation, ESP and corpus studies: Bridging the gap in a French context (31-52); Multimodal L2 Composition: EAP in the digital era (53-72); Mapping specialized domains through a wide-angled interdisciplinary approach: The case of British higher education and research (73-94); An interdisciplinary approach to ESP: The milieu, discourse and culture of American technological risk companies (95-132); A multi-dimensional analysis of legal American English: Real-life and cinematic representations compared (133-150); E-portfolios as professional identities for university learners in an English for Communication and Media program (151-166)

Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Behavior contains papers that were originally presented at the 4th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science 2015 (ICIBSoS 2015), held 22-23 October 2015 at The Institute of Management, Economics and Finance of the Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia and 7-8 November 2015 in Arya Duta Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia. The contributions deal with various interdisciplinary research topics, particularly in the fields of social sciences, education, economics and arts. The papers focus especially on such topics as language, cultural studies, economics, behavior studies, political sciences, media and communication, psychology and human development.