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