Language at Work (BAAL 13)
Published on 25. August 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-85359-427-4 (ISBN)
Description
The 31st BAAL Annual Meeting, held in September 1997 at the University of Birmingham, had as its theme Language at Work. The papers in this collection, although they relate to a wide variety of different contexts, all deal with people using language as part of their working life, and they are all concerned with how language functions to construct participant relationships and institutions. In short, these papers demonstrate how people at work make language for them.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
239 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85359-427-4 (9781853594274)
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Content
Introduction
1 Greg Myers: Institutions, Writing and Talk in Environmental Discourse
2 Kristina Bennert: Negotiating Training: Shifting Participant Frameworks in the Workplace
3 Helen Spencer-Oatey: Relational Management in Chinese-British Business Meetings
4 Eunice Tang and Christina Ng: A Pragmatic Approach to Language Use at Work
5 Judy Delin: Facework and Instructor Goals in the Step Aerobics Workout
6 Susan Bassnett: Translating Across Cultures
7 John E. Joseph: Why Isn't Translation Impossible?
8 Stephen Thomas: Translation as Intercultural Conflict
9 Deirdre Martin, Jane Stuart-Smith and Kudip Kaur Desi: Translating in a Bilingual Research Project
10 Joan Cutting: Opening Lines of Questions from the Floor
11 Susan Thompson: Why Ask Questions in Monologue? Language Choice at Work in Scientific and Linguistic Talk
12 J. R. Martin: Practice Into Theory: Catalysing Change
Contributors
1 Greg Myers: Institutions, Writing and Talk in Environmental Discourse
2 Kristina Bennert: Negotiating Training: Shifting Participant Frameworks in the Workplace
3 Helen Spencer-Oatey: Relational Management in Chinese-British Business Meetings
4 Eunice Tang and Christina Ng: A Pragmatic Approach to Language Use at Work
5 Judy Delin: Facework and Instructor Goals in the Step Aerobics Workout
6 Susan Bassnett: Translating Across Cultures
7 John E. Joseph: Why Isn't Translation Impossible?
8 Stephen Thomas: Translation as Intercultural Conflict
9 Deirdre Martin, Jane Stuart-Smith and Kudip Kaur Desi: Translating in a Bilingual Research Project
10 Joan Cutting: Opening Lines of Questions from the Floor
11 Susan Thompson: Why Ask Questions in Monologue? Language Choice at Work in Scientific and Linguistic Talk
12 J. R. Martin: Practice Into Theory: Catalysing Change
Contributors