Overview

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.

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Author:   Britt-Louise Gunnarsson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9780826492135

ISBN 10:   0826492134
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   08 April 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

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

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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

Author Information

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.

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