18.173, Books: Applied Ling/Pragmatics/Socioling: Gillaerts, Shaw (Eds)

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Subject: 18.173, Books: Applied Ling/Pragmatics/Socioling: Gillaerts, Shaw (Eds)

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Date: 15-Jan-2007
From: Philipp Waelle < publicity at peterlang.com >
Subject: The Map and the Landscape: Gillaerts, Shaw (Eds) 

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:12:10
From: Philipp Waelle < publicity at peterlang.com >
Subject: The Map and the Landscape: Gillaerts, Shaw (Eds) 

Title: The Map and the Landscape 
Subtitle: Norms and practices in genre 
Series Title: Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication. Vol. 43  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=E&VID=11182 

Editor: Paul Gillaerts
Editor: Philip Shaw

Paperback: ISBN: 9783039111824 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 48.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9783039111824 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 28.80
Paperback: ISBN: 9783039111824 Pages: 256 Price: Europe EURO 41.20 Comment: for Germany EURO 44.10 (incl. VAT), for Austria EURO 45.30 (incl. VAT)

Abstract:

This volume explores the complex relations between norms and exemplars of
genres from business and technical communication. Contributors compare a
variety of types of norm with textual practices in a variety of ways. The
genres examined are typical of the range of audiences and media of
workplace and business communication: product withdrawal notices, press
releases, job ads, oral presentations, sales letters and tenders,
chairman's reports, and technical reports. They are compared with norms set
by teachers, by unimaginative practice, by more or less self-appointed
experts, or by practitioners who may not share the national or professional
culture of their colleagues. However accurate these may be, they never do
justice to the complexity of 'reality'. The contributors to this volume use
a wide variety of methods in their attempt to capture this reality. Many
analyse texts, but all combine this procedure with at least one other
approach and often more: questionnaires, experiments assessing the effect
of manipulated texts, analysis of practitioner comments, and use of natural
sources of practitioner judgements like awards for good practice.

Contents: 

Paul Gillaerts/Philip Shaw: Introduction: Genre and Norm 

Paul Gillaerts: Direct Mail: Generic Integrity and Genre Norms 

Birgitte Norlyk: Clashing Norms: Job Ads or Job Narratives 

Elizabeth de Groot: The Genre Context of English Annual General Reports
Published by Dutch and British Corporations 

Frank van Meurs/Hubert Korzilius/Adriënne den Hollander: Testing the Effect
of a Genre's Form on its Target Group 

Brigitte Planken/Dennis van Mierlo/Frank van Meurs: Testing the Effect of
Genre Content 

Dorien van de Mieroop: The Implications of Identity and Fact Construction
for the Genre of Informative Speeches 

Bas Andeweg/Jaap de Jong: Start with a Story: Theory versus Practice of the
Anecdote as Speech Introduction Technique 

Geert Jacobs: The Dos and Don'ts of Writing Press Releases (and how
Learners Act upon them) 

Richard Nordberg/Philip Shaw: Norms and Power in Learner Genres and
Workplace Genres 

Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido: Conceptualising and Teaching Business Reports. 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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