Professional Discourse
Published on 8. April 2009
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-8264-9213-5 (ISBN)
Description
Professional Discourse gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions. For each of these professions, the book explores the dual relationship between discourse and context, outlining how professional discourse is continuously reconstructed in relation to changing contextual frameworks. The case studies discussed in the book are based on authentic texts and spoken data, collected within different environments and related to different domains. The book includes discussion of both theory and methodology, thus providing tools for exercises and future studies. The reader is introduced to a variety of analytical approaches, that of textlinguistics, pragmatics, genre studies, sociolinguistics, interactional sociolinguistics and sociology, psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. The book gives theoretically grounded and systematically investigated answers to questions of relevance for advanced learners, practitioners and academic scholars.
Reviews / Votes
"Drawing largely on her own extensive research that spans the last three decades, Professor Britt-Louise Gunnarsson has produced an account of professional discourse in contemporary Europe that is fresh, lucid and uncluttered. Many readers will be particularly interested in the latter chapters exploring the increasing role of discourse in organizations. Students of professional communications will also find many valuable methodological insights in this important volume." - John M. Swales, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, The University of Michigan, USA ... the volume as an important original intellectual inquiry is a big step forward in studies of face(work) and will surely inspire further advances in this field. -- Discourse and Communication 5(3) Reviewed in Fachsprache 1-2/ 2011.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-9213-5 (9780826492135)
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Britt-Louise Gunnarsson
Professional Discourse
E-Book
04/2009
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€66.49
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Person
Britt-Louise Gunnarsson holds the chair in Sociolinguistics at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has directed several large research projects and published extensively on professional language and discourse.
Content
Acknowledgements; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1. Introducing the topic and the book; 2. A theoretical model for contextual analysis of professional discourse; 3. Methodology to explore the dynamic relationship between text and context; PART II: SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE; 4. The sociohistorical construction of medical discourse; 5. Non-verbal representation in articles within technology, medicine and economics; 6. From a national to an international writing community: The case of economics in Sweden; PART III: LEGISLATIVE DISCOURSE; 7. The functional comprehensibility of legislative texts; 8. The legislative writing process; PART VI: WORKPLACE DISCOURSE; 9. Communication at work: a sociolinguistic perspective on workplace discourse; 10. The multilingual workplace: discourse at a hospital and a large company; PART V: DISCOURSE IN LARGE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS; 11. The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse: the case of banks and structural engineering firms; 12. Business discourse in the globalized economy: a diversity perspective on company websites; PART VI: CONCLUSIONS; 13. Professional discourse in the 21st century; References; Index.