Overview
- Demonstrates the practical impact that applied linguistics research can and should have on a range of professional contexts
- Frames applied linguists and practitioners as mutual partners in professional, institutional and organisational communication
- Shows how crucial effective professional communication is to societal functions in a highly digitalised, globalised world
Part of the book series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations (PSPOD)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Businesses and Organisations
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Healthcare
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Institutions: Politics, Law and Education
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About this book
This edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professional settings, drawing on the contributions of a set of internationally-renowned authors. The book takes a critical approach to understanding professional communication in a range of fields and global contexts. Split into three parts, covering Business and Organisations, Healthcare, and Politics and Institutions, the contributors explore how and why academics engage in workplace research which takes the form of 'consultancy', 'advocacy' and 'activism'. In light of an ever-changing, ever-demanding global landscape, this volume offers new theoretical and methodological ways of conducting professional communication research with real-world impact. It will be of interest to linguistics and communication researchers and practitioners, particularly those working in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, business communication, health communication, political communication, language and the law and organisational studies.
Reviews
“An imperative underpinning the modes and modalities of professional communication research is to embrace a societally relevant impact agenda through intervention and influence. The editor and the contributors – committed to ‘responsive’ and ‘responsible’ research with a ‘reflexive’ mentality – rise to the practical and ethical challenges of ‘translational research’ admirably and refreshingly in linking empirically grounded research across diverse settings, domains and methodologies with their lived experiences of consultancy, advocacy and activism.” (Srikant Sarangi, Professor in Humanities and Medicine, Aalborg University, Denmark, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University,UK)
“The positive and practical impact of research in the organisational space is all too often pushed to the margins in scholarly writing. From linguistic consultancies in corporate, political and healthcare institutions to expert advocacy and social media activism, this exciting new collection- including contributions from field-leaders and experienced professionals- demonstrates the treasures to be found at the researcher-practitioner interface.” (Meredith Marra, Professor in Linguistics and Director, Language in the Workplace, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
“A much-needed book that explores the challenges of professional communication in different workplace contexts across the globe. Addressing a range of specific sociocultural problems through professional communication analysis, it offers valuable insights for both researchers and practitioners.” (Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Louise Mullany is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is also the Founder and Director of Linguistic Profiling for Professionals, an innovative research-based consultancy and business unit based in the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Professional Communication
Book Subtitle: Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism
Editors: Louise Mullany
Series Title: Communicating in Professions and Organizations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41668-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41667-6Published: 12 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41670-6Published: 12 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41668-3Published: 11 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-812X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8138
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 347
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Sociology of Work, Political Communication