Professional Discourse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107689893)

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.

Author: Kenneth Kong
ISBN-10: 1107689899
ISBN-13: 9781107689893
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2019
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d