Language at work : selected papers from the annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics held at the University of Birmingham, September 1997
The 31st BAAL Annual Meeting had Language at Work as its theme. The papers in this collection, although they relate to a wide variety of different contexts, all deal with people using language as part of their working life, and they are all concerned with how language functions to construct participant relationships and institutions.
Print Book, English, ©1998
The Association in association with Multilingual Matters, Clevedon [England], ©1998
Conference papers and proceedings
vii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
9781853594274, 185359427X
39162324
Introduction / Susan Hunston
1. Institutions, Writing and Talk in Environmental Discourse / Greg Myers
2. Negotiating Training: Shifting participant frameworks in the workplace / Kristina Bennert
3. Relational Management in Chinese-British Business Meetings / Helen Spencer-Oatey and Jianyu Xing
4. A Pragmatic Approach to Language Use at Work / Eunice Tang and Christina Ng
5. Facework and Instructor Goals in the Step Aerobics Workout / Judy Delin
6. Translating Across Cultures / Susan Bassnett
7. Why Isn't Translation Impossible? / John E. Joseph
8. Translation as Intercultural Conflict / Stephen Thomas
9. Insiders and Outsiders: Translating in a bilingual research project / Deirdre Martin, Jane Stuart-Smith and Kuldip Kaur Dhesi
10. Opening Lines of Questions from the Floor / Joan Cutting
11. Why Ask Questions in Monologue? Language choice at work in scientific and linguistic talk / Susan Thompson