Language of Business Meetings

Name: Language of Business Meetings
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ISBN: 9780521133432

ISBN-10: 0521133432

ISBN-13: 9780521133432

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michael Handford

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This book is the most systematic, representative, in-depth study of the language used in business meetings to date. It is unique in that it analyses and compares over 60 internal and external meetings, all of which have been fully transcribed. Speakers from every continent are represented in the data, fulfilling various roles in over 25 companies from different sectors. Accounting for the recurrence and dynamism within business meetings is a central theme of the book. This involves analysis at several levels, for example of key words such as "problem", "issue" and "if", metaphors and idioms, and vague language. Various higher level factors are also explored, such as speaker goals,…

Book details

List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/19/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Series editors' preface


Acknowledgements


Transcription conventions



CANBEC: corpus and context



Data collection



Corpus constituency



Contextual information



Transcription and anonymization



Corpus size and generalizability



Outline of the book


References



Background: theory and methodology



Theory



Methodology



Summary


References



The business-meeting genre: stages and practices



Applying Bhatia's multi-perspective model of discourse to business meetings



The meeting matrix



Applying the meeting matrix



Summary


References



Significant meeting words: keywords and concordances



Institutional language and everyday English



Lexico-grammatical theoretical considerations



Word frequencies



Keywords



Summary


References



Discourse marking and interaction: clusters and practices



Defining clusters



Clusters in business research



Cluster lists



Categorization of clusters



Clusters in context



Summary


References



Interpersonal language: pronouns, backchannels, vague language, hedges and deontic modality



The transactional/relational linguistic distinction



Pronouns



Backchannels



Vague language



Hedges



Deontic modality



Summary


References



Interpersonal creativity: problem, issue, if, and metaphors and idioms



Problem and issue



If



Metaphors and idioms



Summary


References



Turn-taking: power and constraint



Turn-taking in internal meetings



Turn-taking in external meetings



Summary


References



Teaching and learning implications



Who is the learner?



Teaching materials: what do they teach?



How can a corpus such as CANBEC be exploited?



Summary


References


Appendix


Index