Conflict and Negotiation in Specialized Texts
Selected Papers of the 2 nd CERLIS Conference
Published on 7. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
470 pages
978-3-906769-12-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Bergamo (18-20 October 2001), which focussed on the issues of conflict and negotiation in the language of specialized texts. The assembled contributions discuss different theoretical and methodological issues, and focus on a variety of aspects relating to the domain of legal, economic, scientific, academic and political discourse.
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Persons
The Editors: Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Director of the Language Centre and Director of CERLIS, the research centre on specialized languages, at the University of Bergamo.
Dorothee Heller is Associate Professor of German Language and Linguistics at the University of Bergamo (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures).
Marina Dossena is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bergamo (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures).
Dorothee Heller is Associate Professor of German Language and Linguistics at the University of Bergamo (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures).
Marina Dossena is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bergamo (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures).
Content
Contents: Christopher N. Candlin: Alterity, Perspective and Mutuality in LSP Research and Practice - Vijay Bhatia: LSP and Professional Practice: Negotiating Disciplinary Conflicts - Marcello Soffritti: Die doppelte Fachsprachlichkeit in aktuellen Norm setzenden Texten - Josefa Gómez de Enterría: Interacción y discurso en la negociación empresarial en español - Donna R. Miller: Multiple Judicial Opinions as Specialized Sites of Engagement: Conflicting Paradigms of Valuation and Legitimation in Bush v. Gore 2000 - Hugo Bowles: How Judges Agree to Disagree: Social and Linguistic Patterns of Dissent in the English Legal Process - Dorothee Heller/Jan Engberg: Verwendungskonventionen deontischer Modalmarker im deutschen Schiedsverfahrensrecht - Luisa Chierichetti: Las controversias relativas a los nombres de dominio en Internet - Martin Solly: 'Once a trademark, not always a trademark': Using Language to Avoid Legal Controversy - Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini: Conflict Corporate Discourse: The Case of Interruptive Behaviour in Meetings - Giuliana Garzone: Conflict in Linguistically Asymmetric Business Negotiations: The Case of Interpreter-Mediated Encounters - Gina Poncini: Dealing with Sources of Conflict in Business Meetings - Merete Birkelund/Kirsten Wølch Rasmussen: Adoucissement du conflit comme technique de négociation dans les conditions générales de vente - Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti: The Negotiation of Academic Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Lectures on Economics - Davide S. Giannoni: Hard Words, Soft Technology. Criticism and Endorsement in the Software Review Genre - Maria Grazia Guido: Scientific Rivalry on the Human Genome: A Case-Study on Genre-Hybridization - Diane Ponterotto: «Whose side are you on?»: The Ambiguity of Discourse on Woman Battering in the United States - Félix San Vicente: Estrategias semánticas en torno a la legitimación de la crisis - Alessandra Lombardi: Argumentative Auseinandersetzung und Konflikt in der Strafjustiz des Dritten Reiches. Die Akten des zweiten Prozesses gegen die Weiße Rose - Elizabeth Swain: Sizing Up the Enemies and Allies: Evaluation in British Foreign Policy Documents 1938-39.