Read more
"Using a wide range of examples such as research papers, business reports, performance commentaries, professional guidebooks and legal documents, this book examines the discourse of professional writing. Employing a number of analytic paradigms includingsystemic functional linguistics, pragmatics, text analysis and sociological and anthropological linguistics, the author explores a wide range of professional genres. He argues that while professions use different sets of practices, their use of language displays many universals, and demonstrates this through examples and 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 linguistics, applied linguists, and those working on the teaching of English for specific purposes"--
List of contents
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.
About the author
Professor Kenneth Kong, Acting Head of Centre for English and Additional Languages, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
