30.3455, Books: Professional Discourse: Kong

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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:48:10
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: Professional Discourse: Kong

 


Title: Professional Discourse 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/discourse-analysis/professional-discourse?format=PB 


Author: Kenneth Kong

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107689893 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 32.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107689893 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107689893 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 29.17


Abstract:

Using a wide range of professional genres such as research papers, business
reports, performance commentaries, guidebooks and legal documents, this study
focuses on the discourse of professional writing, employing analytic paradigms
from systemic-functional linguistics, pragmatics, text analysis, sociology and
anthropological linguistics. Kenneth Kong argues that while professions use
different sets of practices, their use of language displays many universals.
This is demonstrated through the analysis of data from a broad cross-section
of professional settings such as medicine, law, business, mass media and
engineering. This examination of professional discourse, and its important
role in society, will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics, to
professionals who want to understand the role of language in their work, and
to teachers of English for specific purposes.

1. Introduction; Part I. Conceptual Issues: 2. Profession as a symbolic
community; Part II. Linguistic Realizations: 3. Ideology in professional
discourse; 4. Communicative competence in the professional workplace; 5. A
model of interpersonal negotiation in professional discourse; Part III.
Functions and Global Patterns: 6. Speech functions; 7. Intertextuality; 8.
Genre and textual patterning; 9. Multimodality; 10. Conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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