The Language Of Business

Johns, Ann M.

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“…This perspective seems now quite remote from early discussions on the nature of professional language that originated from within LSP, or Language for SpeciÞc Purposes (Johns 1986). In its attempt to recontextualize discourse within the current dialogues between related disciplines and combined approaches, and between praxis and social theory, business discourse also remains distinct from recent developments in LSP (Swales 1999) and ESP (Louhiala-Salminen 2002).…”

Section: Business Discourse: Old Debates New Horizons 275mentioning

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Business discourse: Old debates, new horizons

Bargiela‐Chiappini¹,

Nickerson²

2002

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

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The aim of this introductory article is twofold: (1) to locate business discourse in the context of some of the most salient debates within its cognate discipline, i.e., business communication, thus acknowledging epistemological and methodological indebtedness; and (2) to encourage the discussion around a distinct paradigm for business discourse as a new Þeld of study by sketching out a Þrst analytical framework that draws on multidisciplinary research and promotes multimethod research. The article argues that the Þrst step towards a future multidisciplinary identity for business discourse depends on the operationalization of partnership research, i.e., collaborative research across associated disciplines. Old debates: A Þeld in search of identity?In our earlier work, we deÞned business discourse as "talk and writing between individuals whose main work activities and interests are in the domain of business and who come together for the purpose of doing business" (BargielaChiappini and Nickerson 1999a: 2). We further pointed out that the interactants' status was the decisive element that distinguishes professional from business discourse, in that the former but not the latter, would involve a lay person. Moreover, business discourse refers to spoken and written communication that usually takes place within a corporate setting, whether physical (e.g., a manufacturing organization) or virtual (e.g., telework).Within the remit (and word limit) of a position article, it is our intention to discuss the relevance of a business discourse approach to the analysis of communication in business settings. The signiÞcance of this move is best understood against the background of some of the ongoing debates within the broad Þeld of business communication, such as the related issues of disciplinary deÞ-nition and disciplinary boundaries and the discussions surrounding the plethora of methodological approaches that characterize the Þeld. We will be arguing Brought to you by | Radboud University Nijmegen Authenticated Download Date | 4/13/15 3:20 PM Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Catherine Nickersonhere for a discourse approach to business communication that seeks to reconcile discourse as product and discourse as action, represented in Figure 1 by two discrete discourse units of different orders of magnitude, i.e., generic discourses and typiÞed actions, respectively sequences and nodes in the corporate communication web. We both have a long-standing interest in the Þeld, which stems from a combination of research and language teaching and training experience in corporate settings over a period of ten years. Field research in The Netherlands, Italy and Britain has brought us into direct contact with the textual and non-textual realizations of communication that constitute corporate life. Hence, we understand business discourse as a web of negotiated textualizations, constructed by social actors as they go about their daily activities in pursuit of organizational and personal goals. It is therefore language as social ...

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Section: Business Discourse: Old Debates New Horizons 275mentioning

confidence: 94%

Business discourse: Old debates, new horizons

Bargiela‐Chiappini¹,

Nickerson²

2002

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

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“…Some of this information can be obtained through use of questionnaires, some through a needs analysis interview at the start of a course, and some information may be acquired during the course. Johns (1986) points out that learners of Business English have very diverse circumstances and their needs vary from very specific to very general.…”

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Business English

Johnson¹

1993

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“…The notion of business discourse encompasses thematic subspecies (Johns, 1986) as the economic discourse, the corporate one, the discourse of negotiations and transactions. Here are the business discourse types:…”

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Mentality Shifts in Business English Communication

Cismaş¹

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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The paper investigates the mentality shifts generated by the wide use of English communication in the modern global world. It is an emerging multidisciplinary topic researching the applied use of international idiom patterns in business engineering nowadays. Accelerated technological developments in society trigger inter-disciplinary interactions of separate knowledge fields thus stimulating new perspectives and cross-border disciplines. Hence we discuss about media-linguistics, legal linguistics, ethno-linguistics, and even environment linguistics, which discretely reflect regional cultural features and concerns. Meanwhile, business, an important sphere of human activity, with its sublanguages and communication strategies, will display specific properties that require close examination. Such texts, distinct as compared to others like scientific, publicist, or fictional, reflect the mentality they stem from. The business discourse reveals its own communicative, pragmatic, lexical, syntactic, textual, composite, visual-graphic, normative, genre-stylistic and cultural features, which will be out-lined and delineated in this review.

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The Language Of Business

Cited by 19 publications

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Business discourse: Old debates, new horizons

Business discourse: Old debates, new horizons

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Mentality Shifts in Business English Communication

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