Bøger i Language at Work serien

In this volume, contributors focus on how professionals organize their embodied conduct with material objects. The book concentrates specifically on connections between ongoing courses of interaction within work practices, object materiality and mobility in space, bodily movement and manipulation of objects, and language.

This book presents a linguistic analysis of reflective written texts, produced during medical education or practice. It explores the topics and communication skills the authors write about, how the narratives develop, what genres influence their composition and how the writers linguistically create their identities as experts or novices.

This book explores the contextual complexities of workplace emails by comparing British English and Peninsular Spanish directive speech events. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis the book offers an innovative approach to the study of politeness.

This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. By combining sociological and linguistic research, this book illustrates how linguists and translation specialists can build bridges between medical professionals and their patients.