Linguistics, language and the professions
Subtitle: education, journalism, law, medicine and technology
By: James E. Alatis, Heidi E. Hamilton, Ai-Hui Tan, editors.
Contributors: Alatis, James E.; Tan, Ai-Hui.; Hamilton, Heidi Ehernberger
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Professional employees -- Language -- Congresses; Professions -- Terminology -- Congresses; Sociolinguistics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The 2000 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics brought together distinguished linguists from around the globe to discuss applications of linguistics to important and intriguing real-world issues within the professions. With topics as wide-ranging as coherence in operating room communication, involvement strategies in news analysis roundtable discussions, and jury understanding of witness deception, this resulting volume of selected papers provides both experts and novices with myriad insights into the excitement of cross-disciplinary language analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.