Genre analysis, ESP and professional practice

Bhatia, Vijay K.

doi:10.1016/j.esp.2007.07.005

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“…However, he perceived that counsellors appropriate the resources of a discourse upon which to create another. In addition, Bhatia (2008Bhatia ( , 2010a, as presented earlier in this section, provided insights into the occurrence of interdiscursivity between different genres, professional practices and disciplinary cultures. Even though the genres serve socially recognized communicative purposes (Bhatia, 1993(Bhatia, , 1995, the expert members of the discourse community still may exploit private intentions (Bhatia, 2002) to create hybrid or mixed genres (Bhatia, 2008).…”

Section: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivitymentioning

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“…Bhatia concluded that even though these two discourses have different purposes, different corporate practices, and different textual resources and rhetorical strategies, they were placed in a single genre to reflect a good impression about the performance of the company (Bhatia, 2010a). In relation to professional practices, Bhatia (2008) exposed instances of interdiscursivity through the use of language and discourse between arbitration and litigation practices in legal discourse. In relation to professional cultures, Bhatia (2010a) found instances of interdiscursivity by appropriating semiotic resources between fundraising practices and commercial advertising.…”

Section: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though genres are defined as "conventionalized discursive action" (Bhatia, 2004: p. 87), they are, however, developing (Berkenkotter & Huckin, 1995) and dynamic (Bhatia, 2002). This could be noticed in appropriating the generic resources of certain genres when constructing another, which creates embedded, mixed or hybrid genres (Bhatia, 2002(Bhatia, , 2004(Bhatia, , 2008. This "genre mixing" occurs as the expert members of the discourse community exploit "private intentions" to achieve a number of complementary or even conflicting communicative purposes (Bhatia, 2002(Bhatia, , 2004.…”

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“…The investigation of interdiscursivity as a text-external aspect of generic integrity has taken a prominence role in Bhatia's (2004Bhatia's ( , 2008Bhatia's ( , 2010a critical genre analysis. The investigation of interdiscursivity, according to Bhatia (2010a), is central to understanding professional practice.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Bhatia (2008), interdiscursivity, or the appropriation of generic resources, may occur between two different genres, professional practices or cultures. To examine hybrid genres, Bhatia (2010a) examined a number of annual reports that were taken from companies in Hong Kong.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Critical Perspective to Genre Analysis: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Electronic Mail Communication

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2017

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This study examined intertextuality and interdiscursivity in email exchanges in an Institute in Malaysia. Intertextuality observed how and why the discourse community repeatedly used certain forms to respond to reoccurring rhetorical situations and how they used their professional knowledge to identify the authority of certain texts on other text. Interdiscursivity examined how and why the employees of the Institute appropriated the generic resources of a genre to create another. This study found that the discourse community skillfully used three types of intertextuality to achieve similar and contradicting communicative purposes. They also appropriated generic resources of a genre to create another.

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Bhatia, Vijay

Lung¹

2012

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

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Vijay Kumar Bhatia is known internationally as one of the leading researchers and theorists on the subject of genres and is a renowned international author in the field of English for specific purposes. He is best known for his work in critical genre analysis of professional discourse. Over the past 44 years his specialities have grown to include discourse and critical genre analysis, legal analysis, as well as ESP and professional communication (theory and practice). He is a professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong and the founding president of the Asia‐Pacific Association of LSP and Professional Communication; he is also an adjunct professor at the Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

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English for Business

Nickerson¹

2018

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

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There are many millions of business people across the globe who speak or write English on a daily basis, and hundreds and thousands of business transactions are initiated, negotiated, and completed using English. Outside of contexts where English is used as a first language, it is often also used in business within national borders in countries where it is one of the language choices available because of a country's colonial past, and it may also be chosen for pragmatic reasons because there is an extensive expatriate business community who are unfamiliar with the local language. Because of its widespread use, English has been analyzed more than any other business language. Researchers interested in English for business have looked at a variety of different forms of workplace communication, including business meetings, negotiations, presentations, sales letters, application letters, e‐mail, annual reports, audit reports, advertising texts, various forms of computer‐mediated communication, and corporate home pages. They have also studied the consequences of using business English across the globe, particularly for those people who do not speak it as a first language, and they have looked at the response of readers to promotional texts in English when they are used in contexts outside of the English‐speaking world. Research into English for business has largely been data driven. As a result, it has been characterized by reference to a variety of different research approaches, including sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, business communication, management studies, English as a lingua franca, and English for specific purposes.

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Genre analysis, ESP and professional practice

Cited by 184 publications

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Critical Perspective to Genre Analysis: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Electronic Mail Communication

Critical Perspective to Genre Analysis: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Electronic Mail Communication

Bhatia, Vijay

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