Working with Language

A Multidisciplinary Consideration of Language Use in Work Contexts

Hywel Coleman

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110116434
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110849226
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Working with language: an introduction
• 1 Language in operational crisis. Editorial preface
• Non-routine conversation in operational crisis
• 2 Language and history. Editorial preface
• The use of language in the writing of history
• 3 Language training for immigrant professionals. Editorial preface
• Keeping language in its place
• 4 Relationships between language and work. Editorial preface
• The present and the future of work
• 5 The language of courtroom resistance. Editorial preface
• Defendant resistance to power and control in court
• 6 Language and scientific work. Editorial preface
• Science and the foreign-language barrier
• 7 The language of bureaucracy. Editorial preface
• Civil service English in Nigeria
• 8 The language of drama translation. Editorial preface
• A foreign country: on the translation of stage plays
• 9 The language of doctors and their patients. Editorial preface
• Approaches to describing doctor-patient interviews
• 10 The language of medical research. Editorial preface
• Language use and preference in Japanese medical communication
• 11 The language of computer conversations. Editorial preface
• When the medium determines turns: turn-taking in computer conversation
• 12 Testing the language of health personnel. Editorial preface
• An approach to the measurement of communicative ability in three health professions
• 13 Language and occupation in Bombay. Editorial preface
• Languages for survival and work in the Bombay slum of Dharavi
• 14 Language for specific purposes. Editorial preface
• An overview of English for specific purposes
• 15 Language in police work. Editorial preface
• Talk and police work: notes on the traffic in information
• 16 Language in the jury selection process. Editorial preface
• The structural and discoursal characteristics of voir dire
• 17 The language of business negotiation. Editorial preface
• Language, culture and technical-commercial negotiating
• 18 Language and education in Peru. Editorial preface
• Puno: teacher, school and language
• 19 The language of nurse counsellors. Editorial preface
• Talk in an organization: organization in talk
• Notes on contributors
• Bibliography
• Author index