Professional Discourse
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Professional Discourse

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Professional Discourse

About this book

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.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. Part I Conceptual issues
  12. Part II Linguistic realizations
  13. Part III Functions and global patterns
  14. Author index
  15. Subject index

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Print ISBN
9781107025264
Subtopic
Linguistics
eBook ISBN
9781139989855
Index
Languages & Linguistics

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