Professional Discourse
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- Synopsis
- Using a wide range of professional genres such as research papers, business reports, performance commentaries, guidebooks and legal documents, this study focuses on the discourse of professional writing, employing analytic paradigms from systemic-functional linguistics, pragmatics, text analysis, sociology and anthropological linguistics. Kenneth Kong argues that while professions use different sets of practices, their use of language displays many universals. This is demonstrated through the analysis of data from a broad cross-section of professional settings such as medicine, law, business, mass media and engineering. This examination of professional discourse, and its important role in society, will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics, to professionals who want to understand the role of language in their work, and to teachers of English for specific purposes.
- Copyright:
- 2014
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781139985246
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/30/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Kenneth Kong
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Language Arts, Communication
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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