The language of business studies lectures : a corpus-assisted analysis / / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957037703321
• Autore: Camiciottoli Belinda Crawford
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2007
• ISBN: 9786612154546; 9781282154544; 1282154540; 9789027292421; 9027292426
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Collana: Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser., v. 157
• Classificazione: 17.63; 17.61
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetti: Academic language - Data processing; Business education - Data processing; Lectures and lecturing - Data processing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Language of Business Studies Lectures -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- List of tables and figures -- chapter 1 -- Introduction -- 1.1 Rationale for the study -- 1.2 The university lecture: pros and cons -- 1.3 Aims of the study -- 1.4 Target readership -- 1.5 Overview of the book -- chapter 2 -- Background to the study -- The merger of discourses -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Spoken discourse -- 2.2.1 The linguistic/discursive approach -- 2.2.2 The interactional approach -- 2.3 Academic discourse -- 2.4 Disciplinary discourse: the field of economics -- 2.5 Professional discourse: the world of business -- 2.6 A conceptual framework for analyzing business studies lectures -- chapter 3 -- The business studies lecture corpus -- Design, collection and analysis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Corpus design -- 3.3 Collecting the data -- 3.4 Transcribing the data -- 3.5 Methodology: an integrated approach -- 3.5.1 Quantitative and qualitative analysis -- 3.5.2 Comparative ; analysis -- 3.5.3 Behavioural observation -- 3.5.4 Participant feedback -- chapter 4 -- Speaking to the audience -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Speech rate -- 4.3 Lecture style -- 4.3.1 Discourse dysfluencies -- 4.3.2 Reduced forms -- 4.4 Lexical informality -- 4.4.1 Vagueness -- 4.4.2 Idioms -- 4.5 Syntactic informality -- 4.5.1 Ellipsis -- 4.5.2 Non-restrictive which-clauses -- 4.6 Lexical density -- 4.7 Summary of findings -- chapter 5 -- Interacting with the learners -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Discourse structuring -- 5.2.1 Lecture macrostructure -- 5.2.2 Macromarkers -- 5.2.3 Micromarkers -- 5.3 Evaluation -- 5.3.1 Relevance markers -- 5.3.2 Affect markers -- 5.4 Lecturer-audience interaction -- 5.4.1 Questions -- 5.4.2 Comprehension checks -- 5.4.3 Dialogic episodes.; 5.5 Audience responsiveness and feedback -- 5.6 Summary of findings -- chapter 6 -- Teaching the discipline and the profession -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Disciplinary/professional orientations: a descriptive profile -- 6.3 Real vs. hypothetical worlds -- 6.4 Argumentation -- 6.5 Specialized lexis -- 6.5.1 Global analysis -- 6.5.2 Keyword analysis -- 6.5.3 Connections to Business English -- 6.5.4 Compounds and buzzwords -- 6.6 Metaphors -- 6.6.1 Global analysis -- 6.6.2 Comparative analysis -- 6.7 Summary of findings -- chapter 7 -- Beyond speaking -- Multimodal aspects -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The visual mode -- 7.2.1 The analytical framework -- 7.2.2 The analysis -- 7.2.2.1 Visual typologies in the BSLC -- 7.2.2.2 Comparative analyses -- 7.3 The nonverbal mode -- 7.3.1 Methodology in nonverbal studies -- 7.3.2 The analysis -- 7.3.2.1 Interpersonal episodes -- 7.3.2.2 Nonverbal behaviours of the lecturers -- 7.3.2.3 A microanalysis of one lecturer's nonverbal behaviours -- 7.4 Summary of findings -- chapter 8 -- Final remarks -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Aims, findings, pedagogical implications and research prospects -- 8.3 Methodological insights -- 8.4 Business studies lectures and interdiscursivity revisited -- References -- Appendix A -- Transcript samples fromthe twelve lectures of the BSLC -- Appendix B -- Specialized lexis in the BSLC ranked according to frequency (number of tokens in parentheses) -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Pragmatics &amp -- Beyond New Series.
• Sommario/riassunto: What the learners really need is the competence to handle several types of literacy, which may not be a simple extension of previously acquired communicative competence. (Bhatia 2000: 81).