Acknowledgements SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Introducing the topic and the book 1.1 Why is it important to analyse professional discourse? 1.2 What is professional discourse? 1.3 What distinguishes professional discourse from other types of discourse? 1.4 What is the purpose of the book? 1.5 How is the book organized? 2. A theoretical model for contextual analysis of professional discourse 2.1 The construction of professional discourse 2.2 The contextual dependence of professional discourse 2.3 Model for the contextual reconstruction of professional discourse 2.4 Conclusions 3. Methodology to explore the dynamic relationship between text and context 3.1 Cognitive analysis 3.2 Pragmatic analysis 3.3 Macrothematic analysis 3.4 Conclusions
SECTION 2: SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE 4. The socio-historical construction of medical discourse 4.1 A constructivist approach to medical discourse 4.2 Excerpts from medical articles from different periods 4.3 Stages in the development of medical science 4.4 Scientificality in medical articles from 1730 to 1985 4.5 The relationship between text and context for scientific medical writing 4.6 Conclusions 5. Non-verbal representation in articles within technology, medicine and economics 5.1 Theoretical background 5.2 Non-verbal representation in scientific articles 5.3 Discussion 5.4 Conclusions 6. From a national to an international writing community: The case of economics in Sweden 6.1 The Swedish economics community over three centuries 6.2 The change from a journal in Swedish to a journal in English 6.3 Homogenization of article patterns 6.4 Discussion 6.5 Conclusions
SECTION 3: LEGISLATIVE DISCOURSE 7. The functional comprehensibility of legislative texts 7.1 Comprehension and comprehensibility 7.2 Pilot studies 7.3 Pragmatic analysis of legislative texts 7.4 Law-texts for different functioffs 7.5 Schema for function-centred analysis of laws 7.6 The alternative law-text 7.7 Test on functional comprehensibility 7.8 Discussion 7.9 Conclusions 8. The legislative writing process 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Societal constraints on lawmaking 8.3 The case of Swedish lawmaking 8.4 The legal writing process 8.5 The process and its product 8.6 Conclusions
SECTION 4: WORKPLACE DISCOURSE 9. Communication at work: A sociolinguistic perspective on workplace discourse 9.1 A sociolinguistic framework 9.2 Communication in a local government office 9.3 Conclusions 10. The multilingual workplace: Discourse in a hospital and a large company 10.1 Theoretical approaches 10.2 Presentation of the research project 10.3 The organizational structure of text and talk at work 10.4 Workplace languages 10.5 Foreign language users at work 10.6 Workplace interaction from a diversity perspective 10.7 Conclusions
SECTION 5: DISCOURSE IN LARGE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS 11. The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse: The case of banks and structural engineering firms 11.1 The sociolinguistic order of communication in a close-knit working group 11.2 A model of communication in large enterprises 11.3 Presentation of the research project 11.4 Discourse in European banks and structural engineering companies 11.5 The construction of an 'organizational self': The case of European banks 11.6 Conclusions 12. Business discourse in the globalized economy: A diversity perspective on company websites 12.1 The construction of an 'organizational self' on the internet 12.2 The balance between local and global concerns 12.3 The balance between economic concerns and social/societal values 12.4 Discussion 12.5 Conclusions
SECTION 6: CONCLUSIONS 13. Professional discourse in the twenty-first century 13.1 Professional discourse in different domains 13.2 Large organizations in the twenty-first century 13.3 The multilingual workplace 13.4 Workplace discourse in the 'new work order' 13.5 Topics for future research 13.6 Conclusions References Index
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