The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research : Reflections on Interacting with the Workplace / / edited by Glen Alessi, Geert Jacobs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910280948203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-137-50768-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Collana: Communicating in Professions and Organizations
• Disciplina: 650.01/4
• Soggetti: Discourse analysis; Sociolinguistics; Public relations; Communication; Discourse Analysis; Corporate Communication/Public Relations; Communication Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Half-Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Reflections on the Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research; Part I In; 1 Negotiating Positionality in Ethnographic Investigations of Workplace Settings: Student, Consultant or Confidante?; 2 The Physical Environment for Communication in 21st-Century Work Spaces: A Research Model; 3 Getting Access to Language Data inthe Workplace: Role Enactment as a Data-Generation Method; 4 Gathering Linguistic Data from Multinational Companies: Inter-cultural Communication in the Workplace5 "We Never Even Wondered Whether We Trusted Them or Not": From Freedom to Mutuality in a Student Research Project; 6 How Legal Translation Studies Research Might Assist Lawyers with Best Procurement Practice; Part II Out; 7 Knowledge Management in Multilingual Areas: Practical Recommendations for SMEs; 8 Evaluating Topical Talk in Interactional ; Business Settings: When "Testing the Waters" with Customers May Not Be Much of a Gamble; 9 Crafting the Investor Pitch Using Insights from Rhetoric and Linguistics10 Exhibition Press Announcements: An Evolving or Dissolving Genre?; 11 Standardizing the Language of Corporate Internal Investigative Reports: Linguistic Perspectives on Professional Writing Practices; 12 Dissociative Identities:A Multi-modal Discourse Analysis of TV Commercials of Italian Products in Italy and in the USA; 13 From Business Letters to Emails: How Practitioners Can Shape Their Own Forms of Communication More Efficiently; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Winner of the Association for Business Communication’s Distinguished Publication on Business Communication Award 2016 This edited volume offers a collection of original chapters focusing on the Ins and Outs of professional discourse research. Drawing on insights from LSP, ethnography and discourse analysis, it covers a wide range of issues, ranging from gaining access and collecting data to feeding results back in the form of recommendations to practitioners.