Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication
Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication
Editors: Bhatia, Vijay and Bremner, Stephen
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN: 978-0-41-567619-9
Category: Social Sciences - Media & Communications
Image Count:
28
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication provides a broad coverage of the key areas where language and professional communication intersect and gives a comprehensive account of the field.
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1: Approaches to professional communication
- A. General theoretical frameworks
- 1 Analysing discourse variation in professional contexts - Vijay Bhatia
- 2 Corpus analyses of professional discourse - Winnie Cheng
- 3 A situated genre approach for business communication education in cross-cultural contexts - Yunxia Zhu
- 4 Stretching the multimodal boundaries of professional communication in multi-resources kits - Carmen Daniela Maier
- B. Broad disciplinary frameworks
- 5 Business communication - Catherine Nickerson
- 6 Business communication: A revisiting of theory, research and teaching - Bertha Du-Babcock
- 7 Research on knowledge-making in professional discourses: The use of theoretical resources - Graham Smart, Stephani Currie and Matt Falconer
- 8 Technical communication - Saul Carliner
- 9 The complexities of communication in professional workplaces - Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra
- 10 Electronic media in professional communication - Michael B. Goodman and Peter B. Hirsch
- 11 The role of translation in professional communication - Marta Chromá
- C. Specific disciplinary frameworks
- 12 Management communication: Getting work done through people - Priscilla S. Rogers
- 13 Business and the communication of climate change: An organisational discourse perspective - David Grant and Daniel Nyberg
- 14 Professionalising organisational communication discourses, materialities and trends - Patrice M. Buzzanell, Jeremy P. Fyke and Robyn V. Remke
- 15 Corporate communication - Finn Frandsen and Winni Johansen
- 16 Corporate communication and the role of annual reporting: Identifying areas for further research - Elizabeth de Groot
- Section 2: Practice
- A. Pedagogic perspectives
- 17 A blended needs analysis: Critical genre analysis and needs analysis of language and communication for professional purposes - Jane Lung
- 18 The changing landscape of business communication - Sujata S. Kathpalia and Koo Swit Ling
- 19 Methodology for teaching ESP - William Littlewood
- B. Disciplinary perspectives
- 20 English for Science and Technology - Lindsay Miller
- 21 Communicative dimensions of professional accounting work - Alan Jones
- 22 Professional communication in the legal domain - Christoph A. Hafner
- 23 Communication in the construction industry - Michael Handford
- 24 Offshore outsourcing: The need for appliable linguistics - Gail Forey
- 25 Media communication: Current trends and future challenges - Isabel Corona
- 26 The public relations industry and its place in professional communication theory and practice: Past, present and future perspectives - Anne Peirson-Smith
- Section 3: Acquisition of professional competence
- 27 Communities in studies of discursive practices and discursive practices in communities - Becky S. C. Kwan
- 28 The formation of a professional communicator: A socio-rhetorical approach - Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox
- 29 Collaborative writing: Challenges for research and teaching - Stephen Bremner
- 30 Training the call centre communications trainers in the Asian BPO industry - Jane Lockwood
- 31 Credentialing of communication professionals - Saul Carliner
- Section 4: View from the professions
- 32 Banking
- 33 Law
- 34 Accounting
- 35 PR
- Appendix: View from the professions — questions