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Working with Language
A Multidisciplinary Consideration of Language Use in Work Contexts
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eBook - PDF
Working with Language
A Multidisciplinary Consideration of Language Use in Work Contexts
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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