Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication

Editors: Bhatia, Vijay and Bremner, Stephen
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $225.00
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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.

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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