Professional discourse /
Kong, Kenneth,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Profession as a symbolic community; 3. Ideology in professional discourse; 4. Communicative competence in professional workplace: an identity-based perspective; 5. A model of interpersonal negotiation in professional discourse; 6. Speech acts; 7. Intertextuality; 8. Genre and textual patterning; 9. Multimodality; 10. Conclusion.
Discourse analysis.
Professional employees
Intercultural communication.
Interpersonal communication.