Talking at Work: Corpus-based Explorations of Workplace Discourse

by Lucy Pickering (editor), Eric Friginal (Editor), Shelley Staples (Editor)

This book offers original corpus research in a range of workplace contexts including office-based settings, call center interactions and healthcare communication. Chapters in this edited volume bring together leading scholars in the field of corpus analysis in workplace discourse and include data from multiple corpora. Employing a range of qualitative and quantitative analytic approaches including Conversation Analysis, Linguistic Profiling and Register Analysis, the book introduces unique specialized corpus data in the areas of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, nursing, and cross-cultural communication, among others.

320 pages, Hardcover

Published January 4, 2017