The ins and outs of business and professional discourse research : reflections on interacting with the workplace

Alessi, Glen Michael, 1956- (editor.). Jacobs, Geert, (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781137507679 (hardback)
ISBN: 1137507675 (hardback)
Physical Description: print
xii, 296 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I In -- 1. Negotiating Positionality in Ethnographic Investigations of Workplace Settings: Student, Consultant or Confidante? / Dorte Lønsmann -- 2. Physical Environment for Communication in 21st-Century Work Spaces: A Research Model / Deborah C. Andrews -- 3. Getting Access to Language Data in the Workplace: Role Enactment as a Data-Generation Method / Annelise Ly -- 4. Gathering Linguistic Data from Multinational Companies: Inter-cultural Communication in the Workplace / Carmela Briguglio -- 5. "We Never Even Wondered Whether We Trusted Them or Not": From Freedom to Mutuality in a Student Research Project / Geert Jacobs -- 6. How Legal Translation Studies Research Might Assist Lawyers with Best Procurement Practice / Juliette Scott -- pt. II Out -- 7. Knowledge Management in Multilingual Areas: Practical Recommendations for SMEs / Elena Chiocchetti -- 8. Evaluating Topical Talk in Interactional Business Settings: When "Testing the Waters" with Customers May Not Be Much of a Gamble / Chiara Ganapini -- 9. Crafting the Investor Pitch Using Insights from Rhetoric and Linguistics / Dennis Davy -- 10. Exhibition Press Announcements: An Evolving or Dissolving Genre? / Cecilia Lazzeretti -- 11. Standardizing the Language of Corporate Internal Investigative Reports: Linguistic Perspectives on Professional Writing Practices / Glen Michael Alessi -- 12. Dissociative Identities: A Multi-modal Discourse Analysis of TV Commercials of Italian Products in Italy and in the USA / Sergio Pizziconi -- 13. From Business Letters to Emails: How Practitioners Can Shape Their Own Forms of Communication More Efficiently / Franca Poppi.