Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication provides a broad coverage of the key areas where language and professional communication intersect and gives a comprehensive account of the field.
The four main sections of the Handbook cover:
Approaches to Professional Communication
Practice
Acquisition of Professional Competence
Views from the Professions
This invaluable reference book incorporates not only an historical view of the field, but also looks to possible future developments. Contributions from international scholars and practitioners, focusing on specific issues, explore the major approaches to professional communication and bring into focus recent research.
This is the first handbook of language and professional communication to account for both pedagogic and practitioner perspectives and as such is an essential reference for postgraduate students and those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and professional communication.
Contents
SECTION 1: APPROACHES TO PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
A. General theoretical frameworks
Analysing Discourse Variation in Professional Contexts - Vijay Bhatia
Corpus Analyses of Professional Discourse - Winnie Cheng
A Situated Genre Approach for Business Communication Education
in Cross-cultural Contexts - Yunxia Zhu
Stretching the Multimodal Boundaries of Professional Communication
in Multi-Resources Kits - Carmen Daniela Maier
Broad disciplinary frameworks
Business Communication - Catherine Nickerson
Business Communication: A Revisiting of Theory, Research, and Teaching - Bertha Du-Babcock
Research on Knowledge-Making in Professional Discourses: - Graham Smart, Stephani Currie, and
The Use of Theoretical Resources Matt Falconer
Technical Communication - Saul Carliner
The Complexities of Communication in Professional Workplaces - Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra
Electronic Media in Professional Communication - Goodman, Michael B. & Hirsch, Peter B.
The Role of Translation in Professional Communication - Marta Chroma
Specific disciplinary frameworks
Management Communication: Getting Work Done Through People - Priscilla S. Rogers
Business and the Communication of Climate Change:
An Organizational Discourse Perspective - David Grant and Daniel Nyberg
Professionalizing Organizational Communication Discourses, Materialities, - Patrice M. Buzzanell, Jeremy P. Fyke,
and Trends and Robyn V. Remke
Corporate Communication - Finn Frandsen and Winni Johansen
Corporate Communication and the Role of Annual Reporting - Identifying
Areas for Further Research - Elizabeth de Groot
SECTION 2: PRACTICE
A. Pedagogic perspectives
A Blended Needs Analysis -- Critical Genre Analysis and Needs Analysis
of Language and Communication for Professional Purposes - Jane Lung
The Changing Landscape of Business Communication - Sujata Kathpalia and Koo Swit Ling
Methodology for Teaching ESP - William Littlewood
B. Disciplinary perspectives
English for Science and Technology - Lindsay Miller
Communicative Dimensions of Professional Accounting Work - Alan Jones
Professional Communication in the Legal Domain - Christoph A. Hafner
Communication in the Construction Industry - Michael Handford
Offshore Outsourcing: The Need for Appliable Linguistics - Gail Forey
Media Communication: Current Trends and Future Challenges - Isabel Corona
The Public Relations Industry and its Place in Professional Communication
Theory and Practice: past, present and future perspectives - Anne Peirson-Smith
SECTION 3: ACQUISITION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Communities in Studies of Discursive Practices and Discursive Practices
in Communities - Becky S.C. Kwan
The Formation of a Professional Communicator: A Socio-Rhetorical
Approach - Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox
Collaborative Writing: Challenges for Research and Teaching - Stephen Bremner
Training the Call Centre Communications Trainers in the Asian BPO Industry - Jane Lockwood
Credentialing of Communication Professionals - Saul Carliner
SECTION 4: VIEW FROM THE PROFESSIONS
Banking
Law
Accounting
PR
