The Handbook of Business Discourse

Edited by Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini

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The Handbook of Business Discourse is the most comprehensive overview of the field to date. It offers an accessible and authoritative introduction to a range of historical, disciplinary, methodological and cultural perspectives on business discourse and addresses many of the pressing issues facing a growing, varied and increasingly international field of research. The collection also illustrates some of the challenges of defining and delimiting a relatively recent and eclectic field of studies, including debates on the very definition of 'business discourse'.

Part One includes chapters on the origins, advances and features of business discourse in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. Part Two covers methodological approaches such as mediated communication, corpus linguistics, organisational discourse, multimodality, race and management communication, and rhetorical analysis. Part Three moves on to look at disciplinary perspectives such as sociology, pragmatics, gender studies, intercultural communication, linguistic anthropology and business communication. Part Four looks at cultural perspectives across a range of geographical areas including Spain, Brazil, Japan, Korea, China and Vietnam. The concluding section reflects on future developments in Europe, North America and Asia.

Key Features

  • Consists of newly commissioned chapters, authored by a vibrant group of internationally-known experts and emerging younger scholars, representing more than twenty countries.
  • Individual chapters aim to offer breadth, depth and, where appropriate, illustrative analytical examples, and can be read as self-contained, mini-introductions to each topic.
  • A valuable resource for students, researchers, teachers and trainers looking for a research-based, wide-ranging introduction to business discourse in a single volume.

Endorsements:

'While many authors offer partial insights into business discourse, Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini has made a heroic effort to collect many such insights together in this impressive Handbook. The result is a rich volume that will become indispensable to students and scholars.'

- Barbara Czarniawska, Professor of Management Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

'Researchers interested in understanding and applying the various disciplinary approaches used to study business discourse will not be disappointed by The Handbook of Business Discourse. This much needed and welcome resource provides an authoritative set of up-to-date contributions from an impressive line-up of distinguished and emergent scholars.'

- David Grant, Professor of Organizational Studies, University of Sydney

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Editorial Advisory Board
Notes on Contributors
Reviewers
Introduction: Business discourse, F. Bargiela-Chiappini
Part One: Foundation and Context
Introduction
1: Europe: the state of the field, C. Nickerson and B. Planken
2: New Zealand and Australia: the state of the field, T. Zorn and M. Simpson
3: North America: the state of the field, D. C. Andrews
4: Discourse, communication and organisational ontology, B. Brummans, F. Cooren and M. Chaput
Part Two: Approaches and methodologies
Introduction
5: Rhetorical analysis, M. Zachry
6: Organisational discourse analysis, R. Iedema and H. Scheeres
7: Ethnomethodology, D. Samra-Fredericks
8: Corpus linguistics, T. Berber Sardinha and L. Barbara
9: Critical studies, S. Deetz and J. G. McClellan
10: Mediated communication, J. Gimenez
11: Negotiation studies, A-M Bülow
12: Multimodal analysis, G. Garzone
13: Politeness studies, R. Márquez-Reiter
14: BELF: Business English as a Lingua Franca, M. Gerritsen and C. Nickerson
Part Three: Disciplinary Perspectives
Introduction
15: Linguistic anthropology, C. Wasson
16: Gender studies, L. Mullany
17: Sociology, narrative and discourse, T. Watson
18: Pragmatics, K. C. C. Kong
19: Organisational communication, A. M. Schmisseur, J. Jian and G. T. Fairhurst
20: International management, R. Piekkari
21: Management communication, L. Reinsch
22: Race and management communication, P. S. Parker and D. S. Grimes
23: Business communication, L. Louhiala-Salminen
24: Intercultural Communication, I. Pillier
Part Four: Localised Perspectives
Introduction
25: Japan, H. Tanaka
26: China, Y. Zhu and L. Li
27: Korea, Y. Jung
28: Vietnam, G. Chew
29: Malaysia, S. Nair-Venugopal
30: Brazil, L. Pacheco de Oliveira
31: Spain, E. Montolío and F. Ramallo
32: Francophone research, L. Filliettaz and de Saint-Georges
33: Kazakhstan, E. Suleimenova and G. G. Burkitbayeva
Conclusions
34: Future horizons: Europe, M. Charles
35: Future horizons: North America, R. Dulek and M. Graham
36: Future horizons: Asia, W. Cheng.
Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini has published widely on business discourse. She is currently working as an independent researcher.

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