Discourse, Identities and Roles in Specialized Communication

James Archibald

ISBN 10: 3034304943 / ISBN 13: 9783034304948

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2010, 2010

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Neuware -The studies presented in this volume focus on two distinct but related areas of specialized communication professional and academic settings, resting on an anti-essentialist notion of identity as a phenomenon that emerges from the dialectic between individual and society.The authors start from a detailed analysis of discourse practices as evidenced in texts, their production and the professional performance patterns which underlie such practices, and explore the way the actors, roles and identities are constructed in language and discourse. In particular, by highlighting discursive attitudes and aptitudes, they underscore the need to understand discourse in light of norms of professional responsibility, showing that not only do professionals and academics use discourse to create self-identity, but they also use identity constructed through discourse to influence society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 430 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discourse, Identities and Roles in Specialized Communication
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034304943
• ISBN 13: 9783034304948
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

The studies presented in this volume focus on two distinct but related areas of specialized communication professional and academic settings, resting on an anti-essentialist notion of identity as a phenomenon that emerges from the dialectic between individual and society.
The authors start from a detailed analysis of discourse practices as evidenced in texts, their production and the professional performance patterns which underlie such practices, and explore the way the actors, roles and identities are constructed in language and discourse. In particular, by highlighting discursive attitudes and aptitudes, they underscore the need to understand discourse in light of norms of professional responsibility, showing that not only do professionals and academics use discourse to create self-identity, but they also use identity constructed through discourse to influence society.

About the Author

The Editors: Giuliana Garzone is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her main research interests are in specialized discourse in its different domains, and in translation and interpreting studies. She has co-ordinated several research projects and published extensively on legal language, scientific discourse, business communication, political discourse and on translation and interpreting. In recent times her research has examined the impact of multimodality on professional communication, focusing on text types and genres embedded in the web-mediated environment.
James Archibald teaches at McGill University, Montreal, where he chairs the Department of Translation Studies. He has also taught as an invited professor or research associate at the Centre de recherche des écoles de Coëtquidan Saint-Cyr (2004-2007), the Dipartimento di Lingue e culture contemporanee, Università degli Studi di Milano (2008), and the Centre des langues et de traduction, Université libanaise (2009 and 2010). A Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, he received the Francis W. Weeks Award of Merit from the Association for Business Communication in 2008. He is a member of the Office des professions du Québec.