Professional discourse /

"Using a wide range of examples such as research papers, business reports, performance commentaries, professional guidebooks and legal documents, this book examines the discourse of professional writing. Employing a number of analytic paradigms including systemic functional linguistics, pragmat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kong, Kenneth
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Discourse analysis. Professional employees > Language. Intercultural communication. Interpersonal communication. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.