Talking at Work : Corpus-based Explorations of Workplace Discourse

Lucy Pickering

ISBN 10: 1137496150 / ISBN 13: 9781137496157

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book offers original corpus research in a range of workplace contexts including office-based settings, call center interactions and healthcare communication. Chapters in this edited volume bring together leading scholars in the field of corpus analysis in workplace discourse and include data from multiple corpora. Employing a range of qualitative and quantitative analytic approaches including Conversation Analysis, Linguistic Profiling and Register Analysis, the book introduces unique specialized corpus data in the areas of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, nursing, and cross-cultural communication, among others.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Talking at Work : Corpus-based Explorations of Workplace Discourse
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1137496150
• ISBN-13: 9781137496157
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

This book offers original corpus research in a range of workplace contexts including office-based settings, call center interactions and healthcare communication. Chapters in this edited volume bring together leading scholars in the field of corpus analysis in workplace discourse and include data from multiple corpora. Employing a range of qualitative and quantitative analytic approaches including Conversation Analysis, Linguistic Profiling and Register Analysis, the book introduces unique specialized corpus data in the areas of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, nursing, and cross-cultural communication, among others.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lucy Pickering is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics & TESOL and Director of the Applied Linguistics Laboratory in Texas A&M University–Commerce, USA.  Her research interests focus on discourse analysis, prosody, SLA and corpus research.
Eric Friginal is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of International Programs at Georgia State University, College of Arts and Sciences, USA. His recent book, Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics: A Guide for Students (2014) is co-authored with his doctoral student Jack A. Hardy.
Shelley Staples is Assistant Professor of English Applied Linguistics/SLAT at University of Arizona, USA. Her research focuses on corpus analyses of specialized spoken and written registers, particularly for applications to health care communication. She recently published The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions (2015).