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Questioning and Answering Practices Across Contexts and Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Questioning and Answering Practices Across Contexts and Cultures

Questions we (inter)act with : interrelatedness of questions and answers in discourse / Cornelia Ilie -- Evasive answers vs. aggressive questions : parliamentary confrontational practices in Prime Minister's questions / Cornelia Ilie -- Japanese politicians' questions in parliament : being polite yet forceful? / Lidia Tanaka -- Pragmatic functions of question-answer sequences in Italian legal examinations and TV interviews with politicians / Augusto Gnisci -- "You were resisting the whole time!" Assumption of guilt in police-civilian question-response interactions / L. Guditus Casey -- Constructing interrupting inquiries as cooperative interactions : question-response-hai 'yes' sequences in ...

The Use of English in Institutional and Business Settings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

The Use of English in Institutional and Business Settings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This book explores the intercultural problems related to the widespread use of English in written and oral communication by native and non-native speakers in institutional and business settings. Each chapter looks at a different set of issues emerging from the confrontation of cultures across national, institutional and organizational discourse communities, taking an intercultural or cross-cultural approach. The focus is on workplace settings, both in institutional and business contexts (e.g. politics, public services, media, international corporate communication, advertising, business negotiations, etc.). The theme is all the more interesting today not only in consideration of the sheer magnitude of this phenomenon and its capillary spread, but above all on account of the pervasive penetration of English into professional and workplace contexts as a communication language also for local/internal communication. The complexity of intercultural communication as an object of research is reflected in the variety of the topics explored, the range of settings investigated, and the diversity of methodological approaches taken.

European Parliaments Under Scrutiny
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 387

European Parliaments Under Scrutiny

In the European tradition, parliaments are central political institutions that play a crucial role in the development of democratic societies. No other institution regularly offers a public arena for open deliberation and dissent, for discussing opposite points of view and for reaching compromise solutions between political adversaries. However, in spite of the growing visibility of modern parliaments, the study of parliamentary language use, interaction practices and discourse strategies has long been under-researched. Based on extensive parliamentary data, this book integrates a rich variety of innovative analytical approaches that explore the far-reaching impacts of parliamentary practice...

The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, 3 Volume Set
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 1676

The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, 3 Volume Set

The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction is an invaluable reference work featuring contributions from leading global scholars, available both online and as a three-volume print set. The definitive international reference work on a topic of major and increasing importance, in a new series of sub-disciplinary international encyclopedias Provides state-of-the-art research for scholars in a highly interactive and accessible format, available both online and as a three-volume print set Covers key research topics in the field with contributions from a team of experienced, global editors Successfully brings into a single source, explication of all of the fascinating and ground-breaking Language and Social Interaction work developing globally and across subjects Part of The Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication series, published in conjunction with the International Communication Association. Online version available at www.wileyicaencyclopedia.com

Challenging Leadership Stereotypes through Discourse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Challenging Leadership Stereotypes through Discourse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-08-04
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  • Publisher: Springer

This multidisciplinary volume brings together wide-ranging empirical research that goes behind the scenes of diverse organizations dealing with business, politics, law, media, education, and sports to unravel stereotypes of discursive leadership practices as they unfold in situ. It includes contributions that explore how leadership discourse is impacted by increasing pressures of “glocalization” (the need to communicate across cultures and languages), “mediatization” (leaving ubiquitous digital traces), standardization (with quality management programmes negotiating organizational procedures), mobility (endless fast-paced long distance synchronization) and acceleration (permanent co-adaption and change). The discussion of purposefully chosen case studies moves beyond questions of who is a leader and what leaders do, to how leadership stereotypes are being challenged in various communities of practice, and thereby making change possible. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches are used to get deeper insights into the competing, multi-voiced, controversial and complex identities and relationships enacted in leadership discourse practices.

What Else Can I Tell You?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

What Else Can I Tell You?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

by pragmatic factors, the most important of which are: their sequential position in discourse, the addresser's and the addressee's commitments and expectations, the specific roles assumed and goals pursued by the addresser and the addressee, the power balance between the addresser and the addressee, and the symmetrical/asymmetrical and adversarial/non-adversarial relation between the addresser and the addressee."--ABSTRACT.

Parliament and Parliamentarism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Parliament and Parliamentarism

Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and regional case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European countries, representative institutions, and genres of political discourse.

Insights into Romanian Political Discourse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 519

Insights into Romanian Political Discourse

This book is the first overview of Romanian political discourse, analysing samples of various political discourse genres (parliamentary and presidential campaign debates, political programs, political talk-shows, and festive speeches) and examining public perceptions and reactions to political discourse (protest slogans, memes, press editorials, and online comments). The focus is on present-day discursive practices with occasional references to the past. The 14 chapters of the book are linked together by key-concepts: (im)politeness, consensus – conflict – aggressiveness, manipulation, discursive creativity. The theoretical and methodological framework is grounded in the pragma-discursiv...

Pondering on Problems of Argumentation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Pondering on Problems of Argumentation

Pondering on Problems of Argumentation is a collection of twenty essays brought together for anyone who is interested in theoretical issues in the study of argumentation. This collection of papers gives the reader an insightful and balanced view of the kind of theoretical issues argumentation theorists are currently concerned with. Because most of the perspectives on argumentation that are en vogue are represented, this volume provides a multidisciplinary and even interdisciplinary outlook on the current state of affairs in argumentation theory. Some of the contributions in Pondering on Problems of Argumentation deal with problems of argumentation that have been recognized as theoretical iss...

Teaching Business Discourse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Teaching Business Discourse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book presents research in business discourse and offers pedagogical approaches to teaching business discourse in both classroom and consultancy contexts that address the key issues of dealing with different types of learners, developing teaching materials and evaluation. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of researching business discourse from a variety of different perspectives including pragmatics, discourse analysis, rhetoric, and language for specific purposes, it demonstrates how these approaches may be applied to teaching. Each chapter includes a list of additional readings, together with a number of practical tasks designed to help readers apply the materials presente...