Exploring Professional Communication: Language in Action

Adopting the "back to front" approach of the series, Exploring Professional Communicationstarts with real-life problems and issues , enters into a discussion of intervention and how to engage with these concerns and concludes by tying the practical issues to theoretical foundations. Divided into ten chapters, each dealing with a specific area of professional communication, the book addresses important questions such as: What is professional communication? Why study it? What are the key topics relevant for an understanding of the field? What does an applied linguistics approach have to offer to the study of professional communication? Exploring Professional Communicationtakes an interactive approach that is reflected in the numerous examples of authentic discourse data discussed throughout the book. These are taken from a variety of different written and spoken professional contexts. The book also provides many activities and exercises, a glossary of key terms and an annotated further reading section.