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The Construction of Professional Discourse (Language In Social Life) - Softcover

Book 14 of 18: Language In Social Life

Gunnarsson, B.L.; Linell, Per; Nordberg, Bengt

 
9780582259416: The Construction of Professional Discourse (Language In Social Life)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 058225941X ISBN 13: 9780582259416
Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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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B.L. Gunnarsson, Per Linell, Bengt Nordberg

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
058225941X
ISBN 13 
9780582259416
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
344