ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication provides a broad coverage of the key areas where language and professional communication intersect and gives a comprehensive account of the field.
The four main sections of the Handbook cover:
- Approaches to Professional Communication
- Practice
- Acquisition of Professional Competence
- Views from the Professions
This invaluable reference book incorporates not only an historical view of the field, but also looks to possible future developments. Contributions from international scholars and practitioners, focusing on specific issues, explore the major approaches to professional communication and bring into focus recent research.
This is the first handbook of language and professional communication to account for both pedagogic and practitioner perspectives and as such is an essential reference for postgraduate students and those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and professional communication.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section |253 pages
Approaches to professional communication
section |47 pages
General theoretical frameworks
section |115 pages
Broad disciplinary frameworks
chapter |14 pages
Research on knowledge-making in professional discourses
section |89 pages
Specific disciplinary frameworks
chapter |14 pages
Business and the communication of climate change
chapter |17 pages
Corporate communication and the role of annual reporting
section |185 pages
Practice
section |47 pages
Pedagogic perspectives
chapter |17 pages
A blended needs analysis
section |136 pages
Disciplinary perspectives
chapter |21 pages
The public relations industry and its place in professional communication theory and practice
section |92 pages
Acquisition of professional competence
section |37 pages
View from the professions