The Language of Business Meetings

By: Michael Handford

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Paperback | 19 August 2010

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This innovative volume presents an in-depth study of the language used by participants in business meetings. The cutting-edge research draws on the Cambridge, and Nottingham Business English Corpus (CANBEC), a unique resource which brings together meetings of different types both within and between companies, involving speakers whose roles and responsibilities vary, and who represent a range of nationalities and first languages. Keywords, concordance lines and discourse analysis provide thorough insights into aspects such as the structural stages of meetings, participants' discursive practices, interpersonal language and creativity, and power and constraint. The author concludes by making practical suggestions for using these findings to inform the teaching of business English.

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Non-Fiction Business & Management Business Communication & Presentation Language & Linguistics Linguistics Teaching English (ELT)ELT Learning Material & Coursework ELT English for Specific Purposes ELT English for Business ELT Background & Reference Material ELT Teaching Theory & Methods Applied Linguistics for ELT

Series editors' preface
Acknowledgements
Transcription conventions
CANBEC: corpus and context
Data collection
Corpus constituency
Contextual information
Transcription and anonymization
Corpus size and generalizability
Outline of the book
References
Background: theory and methodology
Theory
Methodology
Summary
References
The business-meeting genre: stages and practices
Applying Bhatia's multi-perspective model of discourse to business meetings
The meeting matrix
Applying the meeting matrix
Summary
References
Significant meeting words: keywords and concordances
Institutional language and everyday English
Lexico-grammatical theoretical considerations
Word frequencies
Keywords
Summary
References
Discourse marking and interaction: clusters and practices
Defining clusters
Clusters in business research
Cluster lists
Categorization of clusters
Clusters in context
Summary
References
Interpersonal language: pronouns, backchannels, vague language, hedges and deontic modality
The transactional/relational linguistic distinction
Pronouns
Backchannels
Vague language
Hedges
Deontic modality
Summary
References
Interpersonal creativity: problem, issue, if, and metaphors and idioms
Problem and issue
If
Metaphors and idioms
Summary
References
Turn-taking: power and constraint
Turn-taking in internal meetings
Turn-taking in external meetings
Summary
References
Teaching and learning implications
Who is the learner?
Teaching materials: what do they teach?
How can a corpus such as CANBEC be exploited?
Summary
References
Appendix
Index
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