Displaying Competence in Organizations [electronic resource] : Discourse Perspectives /
Pelsmaekers, Katja.editor.
Rollo, Craig.editor.
Hout, Tom Van.editor.
Heynderickx, Priscilla.editor.
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Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Discourse Perspectives on Competence in Organizations; 2 'Taking Ownership': Language and Ethnicity in the Job Interview; 3 Equality for Those Who Are Competent. Discourses on Competencies, Diversity and Equality in the Public Sector; 4 The Language of Power: an Analysis of a Corpus of CEO Letters; 5 The Successful 2008 Presidential Candidate: How PoliticalWeblogs Have Contributed in Shaping the American Electorate's Preferences
6 The Representation of Competence in Newspaper Interviews: a Linguistic-Pragmatic Discourse Analysis of the (Self-) Representation of Journalists and Politicians in Written Interviews7 Competence on Display: Crafting Stories during Newsroom Editorial Conferences; 8 Interpreting Competence: Nursing Staff and Family Members as Ad Hoc Interpreters in Hospitals; 9 The Discursive Construal of Purpose by Means of Competence in German and English Corporate Mission Statements; 10 'Adam Smith for Diocesan Missioner': Legitimation in Religious Discourse; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Public relations.
Sociolinguistics.
Applied linguistics.
Discourse analysis.
Corporate Communication/Public Relations.
Sociolinguistics.
Applied Linguistics.
Discourse Analysis.