Good Data in Business and Professional Discourse Research and Teaching: Further Explorations (Communicating in Professions and Organizations) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030617564 ISBN 13: 9783030617561

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

This edited book engages with the richly interdisciplinary field of business and professional communication, aiming to reconcile the prescriptive ambitions of the US-centred business communication tradition with the more descriptive approach favoured in discourse studies and applied linguistics. A follow-up to the award-winning book The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), this volume brings together scholars and their recent work from wide-ranging business and professional settings to engage with the question of what counts as good data. The authors focus on four key themes - authenticity, triangulation, background and relevance - to shine a light on business and professional discourse as essential contextual and intertextual. This book will be of interest to scholars working in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and business communication, but also other social scientists interested in a range of perspectives on oral, written and digital language use in workplace settings.

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About the Author

Geert Jacobs is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium. 

Sofie Decock is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium.

From the Back Cover

This edited book engages with the richly interdisciplinary field of business and professional communication, aiming to reconcile the prescriptive ambitions of the US-centred business communication tradition with the more descriptive approach favoured in discourse studies and applied linguistics. A follow-up to the award-winning book The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), this volume brings together scholars and their recent work from wide-ranging business and professional settings to engage with the question of what counts as good data. The authors focus on four key themes - authenticity, triangulation, background and relevance - to shine a light on business and professional discourse as essential contextual and intertextual. This book will be of interest to scholars working in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and business communication, but also other social scientists interested in a range of perspectives on oral, written and digital language use in workplace settings.

Geert Jacobs is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium. 

Sofie Decock is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030617564
• ISBN 13: 9783030617561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210
• Editor: Jacobs Geert, Decock Sofie