The Construction of Professional Discourse
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The Construction of Professional Discourse

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Construction of Professional Discourse

About this book

Internationally, there is increasing research and interest in the processes of the production and reception of texts for specific purposes and in the historical development of genres and registers within Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology and the sociology of science. Studies of professional communication have traditionally been biased towards the written medium and have been carried out with little, if any, connection to LSP. Disciplinary boundaries and interest groupings have thus kept these different approaches to the study of professional communication and interaction separate. The editors of this volume unite these different perspectives and approaches and bring together recent research from linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, anthropology and sociology to provide an up-to-date analysis of different varieties of professional discourse and their historical development. Chapters written by leading exponents in the field deal with the core theoretical issue of how language, written genres and spoken discourse are constructed as a successive and continuous interplay between language and social realities. The volume includes chapters on the moral construction of discourse in the social care profession, the discourse of dispute negotiation, narrative accounts in clinical research, doctor-patient interaction, legal and other kinds of institutional discourse. A key text for students of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics at both advanced, undergraduate and MA levels.

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Yes, you can access The Construction of Professional Discourse by B.L. Gunnarsson,Per Linell,Bengt Nordberg in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. General editor's preface
  8. Editors' acknowledgements
  9. Publisher's acknowledgements
  10. 1. Introduction
  11. 2. Speech, writing and performativity: an evolutionary view of the history of constitutive ritual
  12. 3. Performatives constituting value: the case of patents
  13. 4. Contracts as social action
  14. 5. A scientific community and its texts: a historical discourse study
  15. 6. On the sociohistorical construction of scientific discourse
  16. 7. Parameters of institutional discourse
  17. 8. Evaluation as linguistic structure and social practice
  18. 9. Critical discourse analysis and the study of doctor-patient interaction
  19. 10. Intertextuality and interdiseursivity in the discourse of alternative dispute resolution
  20. 11. The interactional construction of narratives in medical and life-history interviews
  21. 12. The institutional narrative as drama
  22. 13. Moral construction in social work discourse
  23. 14. Contested vision: the discursive constitution of Rodney King
  24. Name Index
  25. Subject Index