Investigating Workplace Discourse - Rilegato

Koester, Almut

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0415364701 ISBN 13: 9780415364706

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2006

Riassunto

Exploring the characteristics of different types of workplace conversations, including decision-making, training, briefing or making arrangements, this enthralling account pays particular attention to interactions with a more social focus, such as small talk or office gossip.

Presenting a range of approaches to analyzing such workplace discourse, Almut Koester argues for a combination of quantitative corpus-based methods, to compare specific linguistic features in different genres and qualitative methods involving a close analysis of individual conversations, to explore such issues as politeness, power, conflict and consensus-building. A corpus of conversations recorded in a variety of office environments both in the UK and the USA is used throughout to demonstrate the interplay between speakers accomplishing tasks and maintaining relationships in the workplace.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415364701
• ISBN 13: 9780415364706
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 200