The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication provides a broad coverage of the key areas where language and professional communication intersect and gives a comprehensive account of the field. The four main sections of the Handbook cover: Approaches to Professional Communication Practice Acquisition of Professional Competence Views from the Professions This invaluable reference book incorporates not only an historical view of the field, but also looks to possible future developments. Contributions from international scholars and practitioners, focusing on specific issues, explore the major approaches to professional communication and bring into focus recent research. This is the first handbook of language and professional communication to account for both pedagogic and practitioner perspectives and as such is an essential reference for postgraduate students and those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and professional communication.

SECTION 1: APPROACHES TO PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION A. General theoretical frameworks Analysing Discourse Variation in Professional Contexts - Vijay Bhatia Corpus Analyses of Professional Discourse - Winnie Cheng A Situated Genre Approach for Business Communication Education in Cross-cultural Contexts - Yunxia Zhu Stretching the Multimodal Boundaries of Professional Communication in Multi-Resources Kits - Carmen Daniela Maier Broad disciplinary frameworks Business Communication - Catherine Nickerson Business Communication: A Revisiting of Theory, Research, and Teaching - Bertha Du-Babcock Research on Knowledge-Making in Professional Discourses: - Graham Smart, Stephani Currie, and The Use of Theoretical Resources Matt Falconer Technical Communication - Saul Carliner The Complexities of Communication in Professional Workplaces - Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra Electronic Media in Professional Communication - Goodman, Michael B. & Hirsch, Peter B. The Role of Translation in Professional Communication - Marta Chroma Specific disciplinary frameworks Management Communication: Getting Work Done Through People - Priscilla S. Rogers Business and the Communication of Climate Change: An Organizational Discourse Perspective - David Grant and Daniel Nyberg Professionalizing Organizational Communication Discourses, Materialities, - Patrice M. Buzzanell, Jeremy P. Fyke, and Trends and Robyn V. Remke Corporate Communication - Finn Frandsen and Winni Johansen Corporate Communication and the Role of Annual Reporting – Identifying Areas for Further Research - Elizabeth de Groot SECTION 2: PRACTICE A. Pedagogic perspectives A Blended Needs Analysis -- Critical Genre Analysis and Needs Analysis of Language and Communication for Professional Purposes - Jane Lung The Changing Landscape of Business Communication - Sujata Kathpalia and Koo Swit Ling Methodology for Teaching ESP - William Littlewood B. Disciplinary perspectives English for Science and Technology - Lindsay Miller Communicative Dimensions of Professional Accounting Work - Alan Jones Professional Communication in the Legal Domain - Christoph A. Hafner Communication in the Construction Industry - Michael Handford Offshore Outsourcing: The Need for Appliable Linguistics - Gail Forey Media Communication: Current Trends and Future Challenges - Isabel Corona The Public Relations Industry and its Place in Professional Communication Theory and Practice: past, present and future perspectives - Anne Peirson-Smith SECTION 3: ACQUISITION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE Communities in Studies of Discursive Practices and Discursive Practices in Communities - Becky S.C. Kwan The Formation of a Professional Communicator: A Socio-Rhetorical Approach - Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox Collaborative Writing: Challenges for Research and Teaching - Stephen Bremner Training the Call Centre Communications Trainers in the Asian BPO Industry - Jane Lockwood Credentialing of Communication Professionals - Saul Carliner SECTION 4: VIEW FROM THE PROFESSIONS Banking Law Accounting PR

Vijay Bhatia is an Adjunct Professor in Macquarie University and University of Malaya.He is author of Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings (1993) and Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-based View (2004). Stephen Bremner is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests are workplace writing, and the ways in which students make the transition from the academy to the workplace.