Title: Professional discourse /
Authors: Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise.
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Discourse analysis.; Professional employees Language.
Contents: pt. I. Introduction -- Introducing the topic and the book -- A theoretical model for contextual analysis of professional discourse -- Methodology to explore the dynamic relationship between text and context -- pt. II. Scientific Discourse -- The sociohistorical construction of medical discourse -- Non-verbal representation in articles within technology, medicine and economics -- From a national to an international writing community: the case of economics in Sweden -- pt. III. Legislative Discourse -- The functional comprehensibility of legislative texts -- The legislative writing process -- pt. VI. Workplace Discourse -- Communication at work: a sociolinguistic perspective on workplace discourse -- The multilingual workplace: discourse at a hospital and a large company -- pt. V. Discourse in Large Business Organizations -- The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse: the case of banks and structural engineering firms -- Business discourse in the globalized economy: a diversity perspective on company websites -- pt. VI. Conclusions -- Professional discourse in the 21st century.