Language at Work – serie
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12 produkter
Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings
Av Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá
Inbunden, 2016
1525 kr
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This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a …
Objects, Bodies and Work Practice
Av Dennis Day, Johannes Wagner
Inbunden, 2019
1967 kr
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What role do material objects play in the in-situ, embodied and spatial circumstances of interaction? How do people organize their embodied conduct with regard to such objects, and how is this consequential in and for their work practices? In this volume, contributors focus on these questions in …
Exploring Politeness in Business Emails
A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Av Vera Freytag
Inbunden, 2019
1916 kr
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Exploring Politeness in Business Emails explores the contextual complexities of workplace emails by comparing British English and Peninsular Spanish directive speech events and systematically assessing the impact of contextual factors. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods …
Patient-centred Communication
Discourse of In-home Medical Consultations for Older Adults
Av Kayo Kondo
Inbunden, 2022
1882 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the use of patient-/person-centred communication in providing healthcare for ageing populations through an ethnographic approach to physician in-home medical consultations in Tokyo, Japan, alongside interviews with physicians. It focuses on …
Language Management
From Bricolage to Strategy in British Companies
Inbunden, 2022
1777 kr
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This book draws on case studies of language management within British organisations to examine the decisions they make about language diversity in their professional communications in order to be successful in a multilingual world. It explores the practices that the organisations use to manage …
Reconceptualizing English for International Business Contexts
A BELF Approach and its Educational Implications
Av Elma Dedović-Atilla, Vildana Dubravac
Inbunden, 2022
1777 kr
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This book presents a critique of current English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF) practices using research conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The authors identify English communication behaviors that hinder or promote success in the workplace, and trace these back to curricula and teaching …
Communication that Counts
Language Practice and Ideology in Globalized Accounting
Inbunden, 2022
1527 kr
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To date, communication research in accounting has largely focused on the competencies that define what constitutes ‘effective communication’. Highly perception-based, skills-focused and Global North-centric, existing research tends to echo the skills deficit discourse which overemphasizes the role …
Domestic Workers Talk
Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace
Av Kellie Gonçalves, Anne Ambler Schluter
Häftad, 2024
380 kr
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Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian–American employer as well as the company’s …
Domestic Workers Talk
Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace
Av Kellie Gonçalves, Anne Ambler Schluter
Inbunden, 2024
1677 kr
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Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian–American employer as well as the company’s …
Language, Migration and In/Exclusion in the Workplace
Av Jo Angouri, Julie Kerekes m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
430 kr
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In today’s globalised world, large-scale migration is the norm. A contributing factor to the successful settlement of migrants is the ability to access work and economic security. This book focuses on the lived experiences of migrants who (try to) access the workplace, and explores the barriers and …
Language, Migration and In/Exclusion in the Workplace
Av Jo Angouri, Julie Kerekes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1725 kr
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In today’s globalised world, large-scale migration is the norm. A contributing factor to the successful settlement of migrants is the ability to access work and economic security. This book focuses on the lived experiences of migrants who (try to) access the workplace, and explores the barriers and …
Reflective Writing in Medical Practice
A Linguistic Perspective
Inbunden, 2017
1477 kr
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This book reports the results of a linguistic analysis of reflective written texts, produced during medical education or practice. It explores the topics and communication skills the authors write about, how the narratives develop, how these texts are shaped, what genres influence their …
