Investigating Workplace Discourse

by Almut Koester

Book Overview

Exploring the characteristics of different types of workplace conversations, including decision-making, training, briefing or making arrangements, this enthralling account pays particular attention to interactions with a more social focus, such as small talk or office gossip.

Presenting a range of approaches to analyzing such workplace discourse, Almut Koester argues for a combination of quantitative corpus-based methods, to compare specific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041536471X
• ISBN13: 9780415364713
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"