The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research

Reflections on Interacting with the Workplace

  • Glen Michael Alessi
  • Geert Jacobs
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Part of the Communicating in Professions and Organizations book series (PSPOD)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Reflections on the Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research

    1. Reflections on the Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research
      Glen Michael Alessi, Geert Jacobs
      Pages 1-10

  3. In

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 11-11
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    2. Negotiating Positionality in Ethnographic Investigations of Workplace Settings: Student, Consultant or Confidante?
      Dorte Lønsmann
      Pages 13-36
    3. The Physical Environment for Communication in 21st-Century Work Spaces: A Research Model
      Deborah C. Andrews
      Pages 37-62
    4. Getting Access to Language Data in the Workplace: Role Enactment as a Data-Generation Method
      Annelise Ly
      Pages 63-80
    5. Gathering Linguistic Data from Multinational Companies: Inter-cultural Communication in the Workplace
      Carmela Briguglio
      Pages 81-101
    6. “We Never Even Wondered Whether We Trusted Them or Not”: From Freedom to Mutuality in a Student Research Project
      Astrid Vandendaele, Tom Bruyer, Geert Jacobs
      Pages 102-116
    7. How Legal Translation Studies Research Might Assist Lawyers with Best Procurement Practice
      Juliette Scott
      Pages 117-138

  4. Out

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 139-139
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    2. Knowledge Management in Multilingual Areas: Practical Recommendations for SMEs
      Elena Chiocchetti
      Pages 141-160
    3. Evaluating Topical Talk in Interactional Business Settings: When “Testing the Waters” with Customers May Not Be Much of a Gamble
      Chiara Ganapini
      Pages 161-181
    4. Crafting the Investor Pitch Using Insights from Rhetoric and Linguistics
      Peter Daly, Dennis Davy
      Pages 182-203
    5. Exhibition Press Announcements: An Evolving or Dissolving Genre?
      Cecilia Lazzeretti
      Pages 204-224
    6. Standardizing the Language of Corporate Internal Investigative Reports: Linguistic Perspectives on Professional Writing Practices
      Glen Michael Alessi
      Pages 225-245
    7. Dissociative Identities: A Multi-modal Discourse Analysis of TV Commercials of Italian Products in Italy and in the USA
      Laura Di Ferrante, Walter Giordano, Sergio Pizziconi
      Pages 246-271
    8. From Business Letters to Emails: How Practitioners Can Shape Their Own Forms of Communication More Efficiently
      Franca Poppi
      Pages 272-294
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 295-296
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Discourse Research Reflexivity Workplace Discourse LSP professional ethnography communication discourse discourse analysis intercultural communication rhetoric

Editors and affiliations

  • Glen Michael Alessi
    • 1
  • Geert Jacobs
    • 2
  1. 1.University of Modena and Reggio EmiliaItaly
  2. 2.Ghent UniversityBelgium

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137507686
  • Copyright Information The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Social Sciences
  • Print ISBN 978-1-137-50767-9
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-50768-6
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