Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions

This volume presents mayor contributions of Applied Linguistics to the understanding of communications in the professions. The first two parts of this book deal with the theoretical and methodological orientations of professional communication studies, the history and development of professional communication studies, highlighting the discursive turn of Applied Linguistic research that goes far beyond the established paradigm of Language for Specific Purposes. The third part - the core of this book - presents research into professional practices from various domains (e.g. law, healthcare, business and management, organizations), sites of engagement (as e.g. lawyer-client-conference, doctor-patient interaction) and with respect to different themes that are generalizable across domains and sites (as e.g. communicative aspects of action and practice, of assessment and appraisal). In the final part, professionals from various domains evaluate the contribution to their work so far made by Applied Linguistics.

List of contents

Contents
Editorial Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
History and Development of Professional Communication Studies
Research into Professional Practices
Engagement with Professions

About the author

Chris Candlin, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; Srikant Sarangi, Cardiff University, UK.

Product details

• Assisted by: Christopher Candlin (Editor), Christopher N. Candlin (Editor), Christophe N Candlin (Editor), Christopher N Candlin (Editor), Sarangi (Editor), Sarangi (Editor), Srikant Sarangi (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2011
• EAN: 9783110188318
• ISBN: 978-3-11-018831-8
• No. of pages: 626
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 40 mm x 244 mm
• Weight: 1144 g
• Series: Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL]; Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL]
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics