Linking Discourse Studies to Professional Practice / / ed. by Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste.

This book examines how discourse analysts could best disseminate their research findings in real world settings. Each chapter presents a study of spoken or written discourse with authors putting forward a plan for how to engage professional practice in their work, using this volume's Framework...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Multilingual Matters
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Framework for Application of Research Findings: An Introduction
  • Part 1: Workplace and Business Settings
  • 2. Institutional Identity Negotiations in Multilingual Workplace Settings
  • 3. English as Lingua Franca in Multilingual Business Negotiations: Managing Miscommunication Using Other-initiated Repair
  • 4. Asymmetrical Aspects of Knowledge in Mediation Talk
  • 5. Family Conversational Storytelling at the Margins of the Workplace: The Case of Au-pair Girls
  • 6. Practical Genre Knowledge as Professional Competence: The Case of Managerial Meetings
  • Part 2: Educational Settings
  • 7. The Centrality of Communicative Purpose in Student Written Discourse
  • 8. Narrative Discourse in the Second-Language Classroom
  • 9. Interpreter-mediated Parent-Teacher Talk
  • Part 3: Private and Public Settings
  • 10. Tensions in Family Discourse: Expectations and Justifications
  • 11. Positioning Selves with Physical Disabilities in Narrative
  • Part 4: Government and Media Settings
  • 12. On the City Council Meetings' Sidelines: Negotiating Changes in Citizen Involvement
  • 13. Reframed News Discourse: The Manipulative Impact of Translation on News Making
  • 14. Analysing Media Discourse on Same-sex Marriage
  • Afterword
  • References
  • Index