Ebook: The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis
Author: Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli
- Series: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 157
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: John Benjamins
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a corpus of authentic business studies lectures, focusing on spoken, academic, disciplinary and professional features (e.g., speech rate, interactive devices, specialized lexis) that are crucial to comprehension, but often problematic for non-native speakers. The investigation adopts an original multi-pronged approach including quantitative, qualitative and comparative analyses. It utilizes techniques drawn mainly from corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, but also integrates observational and ethnographic methods to provide unique extra-linguistic insights. The study is thus a full-circle interpretive account of this dynamic spoken genre where academia and profession converge. The book shows how business studies lectures are characterised by a synergy of discourses and communicative channels that reflect the community of practice, highlighting the need to help international business students develop multiple literacies to overcome present and future challenges.
New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a corpus of authentic business studies lectures, focusing on spoken, academic, disciplinary and professional features (e.g., speech rate, interactive devices, specialized lexis) that are crucial to comprehension, but often problematic for non-native speakers. Read more...
New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a corpus of authentic business studies lectures, focusing on spoken, academic, disciplinary and professional features (e.g., speech rate, interactive devices, specialized lexis) that are crucial to comprehension, but often problematic for non-native speakers. Read more...
Content: The Language of Business Studies Lectures; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of acronyms and abbreviations; List of tables and figures; chapter 1; Introduction; 1.1 Rationale for the study; 1.2 The university lecture: pros and cons; 1.3 Aims of the study; 1.4 Target readership; 1.5 Overview of the book; chapter 2; Background to the study; The merger of discourses; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Spoken discourse; 2.2.1 The linguistic/discursive approach; 2.2.2 The interactional approach; 2.3 Academic discourse; 2.4 Disciplinary discourse: the field of economics.
Abstract: New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a corpus of authentic business studies lectures, focusing on spoken, academic, disciplinary and professional features (e.g., speech rate, interactive devices, specialized lexis) that are crucial to comprehension, but often problematic for non-native speakers. The investigation adopts an original multi-pronged approach including quantitative, qualitative and comparative analyses. It utilizes techniques drawn mainly from corpus linguistics