Communicating in Professions and Organizations: Corpus-based Explorations of Workplace Discourse

Pickering, Lucy; Friginal, Eric; Staples, Shelley

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2017-01-04

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137496157

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-49616-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 284