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The business of words : wordsmiths, linguists, and other language workers /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Thurlow, Crispin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Subjects:
Language and languages in advertising.
Mass media and language.
English language > Social aspects.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • <P>List of Contributors</P><P></P><P>Chapter 1
  • Crispin Thurlow</P><I><P>The (Grubby) Business of Words: What 'George Clooney' Tells Us</P></I><P></P><B><P>Part 1: Language Work and the Business of Words</P></B><P></P><P>Chapter 2
  • Alexandre Duchêne</P><I><P>Unequal Language Work(ers) in the Business of Words</P></I><P></P><P>Chapter 3
  • Helen Kelly-Holmes </P><I><P>The Linguistic Business of Marketing</P></I><P></P><B><P>Part 2: Wordsmiths and Professional Language Work</P></B><P></P><P>Chapter 4
  • Geert Jacobs</P><I><P>Unwriteable Discourse? Co-crafting the Language of Science News<BR></P></I><P>Chapter 5
  • Crispin Thurlow and David Britain</P><I><P>Voice Work: Learning About and From Dialect Coaches</P></I><P></P><P>Chapter 6
  • Adam Jaworski</P><I><P>EAT, LOVE and Other (Small) Stories: Tellability and Multimodality in Robert Indiana's Word Art</P></I><P></P><P>Chapter 7
  • Bronwen Innes </P><I><P>Judges as Wordsmiths: Crafting Clarity and Neutrality in Summing-up for Juries</P><P></P></I><P>Chapter 8
  • Jamie Moshin and Crispin Thurlow</P><I><P>Making (up) the News: The Artful Language Work of Journalists in 'Reporting' Taboo</P></I><B><P>Part 3: Linguists and Political Economies of Expertise </P></B><P></P><P>Chapter 9
  • Alexandra Jaffe</P><I><P>Framing Elite Knowledge in Shifting Linguistic Economies: The Case of Minority Language Translation</P></I><P></P><P>Chapter 10
  • Felictas Macgilchrist</P><I><P>Beyond the Academic 'But': The Pleasures and Politics of Collaborative Language Work in the Publishing Industry</P></I><P></P><P>Chapter 11
  • Enam Al Wer & Maria Fanis</P><I><P>The Commercialisation of Linguistic Expertise in the Asylum Vetting Process</P></I><P></P><P>Chapter 12
  • Elana Shohamy </P><I><P>Engaging with School Principals as Language Policy Workers</P></I><P></P><I><P>Index</P></I>