The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research [electronic resource] : Reflections on Interacting with the Workplace /
Alessi, Glen.editor.
Jacobs, Geert.editor.
Winner of the Association for Business Communication’s Distinguished Publication on Business Communication Award 2016 This edited volume offers a collection of original chapters focusing on the Ins and Outs of professional discourse research. Drawing on insights from LSP, ethnography and discourse analysis, it covers a wide range of issues, ranging from gaining access and collecting data to feeding results back in the form of recommendations to practitioners.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover ; Half-Title  ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Reflections on the Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research; Part I  In; 1 Negotiating Positionality in Ethnographic Investigations of Workplace Settings: Student, Consultant or Confidante?; 2 The Physical Environment for Communication in 21st-Century Work Spaces: A Research Model; 3 Getting Access to Language Data inthe Workplace: Role Enactment as a Data-Generation Method
4 Gathering Linguistic Data from Multinational Companies: Inter-cultural Communication in the Workplace5 "We Never Even Wondered Whether We Trusted Them or Not": From Freedom to Mutuality in a Student Research Project; 6 How Legal Translation Studies Research Might Assist Lawyers with Best Procurement Practice; Part II Out; 7 Knowledge Management in Multilingual Areas: Practical Recommendations for SMEs; 8 Evaluating Topical Talk in Interactional Business Settings: When "Testing the Waters" with Customers May Not Be Much of a Gamble
9 Crafting the Investor Pitch Using Insights from Rhetoric and Linguistics10 Exhibition Press Announcements: An Evolving or Dissolving Genre?; 11 Standardizing the Language of Corporate Internal Investigative Reports: Linguistic Perspectives on Professional Writing Practices; 12 Dissociative Identities:A Multi-modal Discourse Analysis of TV Commercials of Italian Products in Italy and in the USA; 13 From Business Letters to Emails: How Practitioners Can Shape Their Own Forms of Communication More Efficiently; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Winner of the Association for Business Communication’s Distinguished Publication on Business Communication Award 2016 This edited volume offers a collection of original chapters focusing on the Ins and Outs of professional discourse research. Drawing on insights from LSP, ethnography and discourse analysis, it covers a wide range of issues, ranging from gaining access and collecting data to feeding results back in the form of recommendations to practitioners.
Discourse analysis.
Sociolinguistics.
Public relations.
Communication.
Discourse Analysis.
Sociolinguistics.
Corporate Communication/Public Relations.
Communication Studies.