Professional Discourse

, by Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise

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Copyright: 6/8/2009

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Professional Discourse gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions, including law, business, medicine, science and the academic settings, technology and bureaucracy.

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction
Introducing the topic and the book	p. 3
Why is it important to analyse professional discourse?	p. 3
What is professional discourse?	p. 5
What distinguishes professional discourse from other types of discourse?	p. 5
What is the purpose of the book?	p. 11
How is the book organized?	p. 12
A theoretical model for contextual analysis of professional discourse	p. 16
The construction of professional discourse	p. 16
The contextual dependence of professional discourse	p. 20
Model for the contextual reconstruction of professional discourse	p. 26
Conclusions	p. 27
Methodology to explore the dynamic relationship between text and context	p. 29
Cognitive analysis	p. 30
Pragmatic analysis	p. 38
Macrothematic analysis	p. 43
Conclusions	p. 49
Scientific Discourse
The socio-historical construction of medical discourse	p. 55
A constructivist approach to medical discourse	p. 55
Excerpts from medical articles from different periods	p. 57
Stages in the development of medical science	p. 61
Scientificality in medical articles from 1730 to 1985	p. 62
The relationship between text and context for scientific medical writing	p. 69
Conclusions	p. 70
Non-verbal representation in articles within technology, medicine and economics	p. 72
Theoretical background	p. 72
Non-verbal representation in scientific articles	p. 74
Discussion	p. 79
Conclusions	p. 80
From a national to an international writing community: The case of economics in Sweden	p. 81
The Swedish economics community over three centuries	p. 82
The change from a journal in Swedish to a journal in English	p. 84
Homogenization of article patterns	p. 88
Discussion	p. 91
Conclusions	p. 94
Legislative Discourse
The functional comprehensibility of legislative texts	p. 99
Comprehension and comprehensibility	p. 99
Pilot studies	p. 103
Pragmatic analysis of legislative texts	p. 104
Law-texts for different functions	p. 108
Schema for function-centred analysis of laws	p. 109
The alternative law-text	p. 111
Test on functional comprehensibility	p. 114
Discussion	p. 121
Conclusions	p. 122
The legislative writing process	p. 123
Introduction	p. 124
Societal constraints on lawmaking	p. 126
The case of Swedish lawmaking	p. 130
The legal writing process	p. 132
The process and its product	p. 137
Conclusions	p. 141
Workplace Discourse
Communication at work: A sociolinguistic perspective on workplace discourse	p. 145
A sociolinguistic framework	p. 145
Communication in a local government office	p. 151
Conclusions	p. 170
The multilingual workplace: Discourse in a hospital and a large company	p. 173
Theoretical approaches	p. 174
Presentation of the research project	p. 177
The organizational structure of text and talk at work	p. 179
Workplace languages	p. 181
Foreign language users at work	p. 183
Workplace interaction from a diversity perspective	p. 188
Conclusions	p. 191
Discourse in Large Business Organizations
The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse: The case of banks and structural engineering firms	p. 195
The sociolinguistic order of communication in a close-knit working group	p. 196
A model of communication in large enterprises	p. 197
Presentation of the research project	p. 199
Discourse in European banks and structural engineering companies	p. 200
The construction of an 'organizational self': The case of European banks	p. 208
Conclusions	p. 217
Business discourse in the globalized economy: A diversity perspective on company websites	p. 220
The construction of an 'organizational self' on the internet	p. 221
The balance between local and global concerns	p. 222
The balance between economic concerns and social/societal values	p. 224
Discussion	p. 233
Conclusions	p. 235
Conclusions
Professional discourse in the twenty-first century	p. 239
Professional discourse in different domains	p. 239
Large organizations in the twenty-first century	p. 241
The multilingual workplace	p. 244
Workplace discourse in the 'new work order'	p. 249
Topics for future research	p. 251
Conclusions	p. 252
References	p. 255
Index	p. 267
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Professional Discourse

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