Professional Discourse
Professional Discourse gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions. For each of these professions, the book explores the dual relationship between discourse and context, outlining how professional discourse is continuously reconstructed in relation to changing contextual frameworks.\ The case studies discussed in the book are based on authentic texts and spoken data, collected within different environments and related to different domains. The book includes...
Search in google:
Professional Discourse gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions, including law, business, medicine, science and the academic settings, technology and bureaucracy.
Acknowledgements viiiSection 1 Introduction1 Introducing the topic and the book 31.1 Why is it important to analyse professional discourse? 31.2 What is professional discourse? 51.3 What distinguishes professional discourse from other types of discourse? 51.4 What is the purpose of the book? 111.5 How is the book organized? 122 A theoretical model for contextual analysis of professional discourse 162.1 The construction of professional discourse 162.2 The contextual dependence of professional discourse 202.3 Model for the contextual reconstruction of professional discourse 262.4 Conclusions 273 Methodology to explore the dynamic relationship between text and context 293.1 Cognitive analysis 303.2 Pragmatic analysis 383.3 Macrothematic analysis 433.4 Conclusions 49Section 2 Scientific Discourse4 The socio-historical construction of medical discourse 554.1 A constructivist approach to medical discourse 554.2 Excerpts from medical articles from different periods 574.3 Stages in the development of medical science 614.4 Scientificality in medical articles from 1730 to 1985 624.5 The relationship between text and context for scientific medical writing 694.6 Conclusions 705 Non-verbal representation in articles within technology, medicine and economics 725.1 Theoretical background 725.2 Non-verbal representation in scientific articles 745.3 Discussion 795.4 Conclusions 806 From a national to an international writing community: The case of economics in Sweden 816.1 The Swedish economics community over three centuries 826.2 The change from a journal in Swedish to a journal in English 846.3Homogenization of article patterns 886.4 Discussion 916.5 Conclusions 94Section 3 Legislative Discourse7 The functional comprehensibility of legislative texts 997.1 Comprehension and comprehensibility 997.2 Pilot studies 1037.3 Pragmatic analysis of legislative texts 1047.4 Law-texts for different functions 1087.5 Schema for function-centred analysis of laws 1097.6 The alternative law-text 1117.7 Test on functional comprehensibility 1147.8 Discussion 1217.9 Conclusions 1228 The legislative writing process 1238.1 Introduction 1248.2 Societal constraints on lawmaking 1268.3 The case of Swedish lawmaking 1308.4 The legal writing process 1328.5 The process and its product 1378.6 Conclusions 141Section 4 Workplace Discourse9 Communication at work: A sociolinguistic perspective on workplace discourse 1459.1 A sociolinguistic framework 1459.2 Communication in a local government office 1519.3 Conclusions 17010 The multilingual workplace: Discourse in a hospital and a large company 17310.1 Theoretical approaches 17410.2 Presentation of the research project 17710.3 The organizational structure of text and talk at work 17910.4 Workplace languages 18110.5 Foreign language users at work 18310.6 Workplace interaction from a diversity perspective 18810.7 Conclusions 191Section 5 Discourse in Large Business Organizations11 The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse: The case of banks and structural engineering firms 19511.1 The sociolinguistic order of communication in a close-knit working group 19611.2 A model of communication in large enterprises 19711.3 Presentation of the research project 19911.4 Discourse in European banks and structural engineering companies 20011.5 The construction of an 'organizational self': The case of European banks 20811.6 Conclusions 21712 Business discourse in the globalized economy: A diversity perspective on company websites 22012.1 The construction of an 'organizational self' on the internet 22112.2 The balance between local and global concerns 22212.3 The balance between economic concerns and social/societal values 22412.4 Discussion 23312.5 Conclusions 235Section 6 Conclusions13 Professional discourse in the twenty-first century 23913.1 Professional discourse in different domains 23913.2 Large organizations in the twenty-first century 24113.3 The multilingual workplace 24413.4 Workplace discourse in the 'new work order' 24913.5 Topics for future research 25113.6 Conclusions 252References 255Index 267
