Sociolinguistics and Business Talk

A Role-Playing Approach
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-981-19-0050-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 163 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

This book delivers essential skills in “spoken” professional communications, presenting theoretical and applied frameworks for business talk using English as a lingua franca. Adopting a role-playing approach mimicking various professional settings, it assesses the strength of the well-reasoned argument, the logical links that convince the audience of the coherence of the speaker’s argument and the necessary linguistics competencies. This book centers on a variety of situations that commonly take place in business organizations (such as relational talk; call center talk; job application talk) and addresses key skills such as conflict resolution and collaborative problem solving through communication, which are key for both students and practitioners. In addition it analyses spoken business discourse data with the four main sources of communicative competence: grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence in order to highlight how theyare used in business speaking practices.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jung, Yeonkwon

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Public Relations
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Rapport talk.- 3 Call center talk.- 4 Business meeting talk.- 5 Sales talk.- 6 PR talk.- 7 Job application talk.- 8 Concluding remarks.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Yeonkwon Jung is teaching Business Communication at Kansai Gaidai University (KGU). Prior to joining KGU, he held numerous teaching and research appointments, including Helsinki School of Economics, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Chuo University, and Korea University. He received a PhD from The University of Edinburgh and an MA from University of Hawaii at Manoa. His major research interests include the various genres of business communication, the role of English as the business lingua franca, corporate communication in international contexts, and pedagogical aspect of business communication. He was the winner of the 2021 Kitty O. Locker Outstanding Researcher Award.