1st Edition
The Construction of Professional Discourse
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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Internationally, there is increasing research and interest in the processes of the production and reception of texts for specific purposes and in the historical development of genres and registers within Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology and the sociology of science. Studies of professional communication have traditionally been biased... Read more
Contributors. General editor's preface. Acknowledgement.
1. Introduction.
2. Speech, Writing and Performativity: Evolutionary View of the History of Constitutive Ritual.
3. Performatives Constituting Value: The Case of Patents.
4. Contracts as Social Action.
5. A Scientific Community and its Texts: a Historical Discourse Study.
6. On the Sociohistorical Construction of Scientific Discourse.
7. Parameters of Institutional Discourse.
8. Evaluation as Linguistic Structure and Social Practice.
9. Critical Discourse Analysis and the Study of Doctor-Patient Interaction.
10. Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in the Discourse of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
11. The Interactional Construction of Narratives in Medical and Life History Interviews.
12. The Institutional
13. Narrative as Drama. Moral Construction in Social Work Discourse.
14. Contested Vision: The Discursive Constitution of Rodney King.
Index
1. Introduction.
2. Speech, Writing and Performativity: Evolutionary View of the History of Constitutive Ritual.
3. Performatives Constituting Value: The Case of Patents.
4. Contracts as Social Action.
5. A Scientific Community and its Texts: a Historical Discourse Study.
6. On the Sociohistorical Construction of Scientific Discourse.
7. Parameters of Institutional Discourse.
8. Evaluation as Linguistic Structure and Social Practice.
9. Critical Discourse Analysis and the Study of Doctor-Patient Interaction.
10. Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in the Discourse of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
11. The Interactional Construction of Narratives in Medical and Life History Interviews.
12. The Institutional
13. Narrative as Drama. Moral Construction in Social Work Discourse.
14. Contested Vision: The Discursive Constitution of Rodney King.
Index
Biography
B.L. Gunnarsson, Per Linell, Bengt Nordberg
