The unit will focus on transparency in (supra)national institutional spoken communicative events aimed at the general public; attention will be dedicated to the topics of medicine, transport, energy, and fashion in line with the other project units, as well as the environment and politics, where disclosure and dissemination practices are particularly at stake. Indeed, institutions design norms and regulations that citizens need to follow, and language represents their primary instrument. Transparency is thus crucial to build trust and create a positive image, as well as foster a positive relationship with the public. Authorities and institutions may prevent misunderstanding and tension thanks to attentive use of linguistic communicative strategies, especially in today’s networked society with immediate access to online information, which may breed mistrust. To shed light on which linguistic, pragmatic, intercultural and nonverbal features enhance or hinder transparency in communication to the general public, the unit will compile a corpus of spoken discourse, including interviews, Q&A sessions, dialogues, and broadcast debates sourced from major broadcasting companies and content-sharing platforms. These will involve diplomats, ambassadors, politicians and international operators from different linguacultural backgrounds, who interact in English as their working language, thus adding an intercultural layer to the analysis. The data gleaned from the corpus will also underpin further analysis from a didactic viewpoint, aimed at developing materials for use in a task-based pedagogical framework for English Language Teaching, and designed to mold learners’ receptive/productive skills required to access and comprehend the features of transparency in spoken broadcasts and to communicate effectively with transparency in mind.