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Business Discourse
Texts and Contexts (Linguistic Insights)
by Professor Anna Trosborg, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2005 by Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7000-9, ISBN: 0-8204-7000-7

"The contributions to this volume together confirm that though context and culture are complex and difficult notions, they are crucial to understanding the professional genres of modern business communication. In today's globalised business environment, professionals of all backgrounds are under pressure to employ new and different discourse standards to allow for smoother production and reception of business documents and dialogues. In ..."

Age in L2 Acquisition and Teaching(1st Edition)
(Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication)
by Christian Abello-Contesse, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 2005 by Peter Lang Pub Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7174-7, ISBN: 0-8204-7174-7

"This collection of eleven contributions deals with various aspects of age and the age factor in the acquisition of second languages, particularly English and Spanish. It is divided into three areas: theory and pedagogical implications; school and family settings; age and the relationship between aptitude and second language learning."

Genre Variation in Business Letters
(Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication)
by Paul Gillaerts, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 407 Pages, Published 2005 by Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7552-3, ISBN: 0-8204-7552-1

"The focus of this volume is on the business letter genre, a seminal and widely used genre in business communication. Since the introduction of the Internet, interest in this genre has increased once again, because of the digital format of the letter. E-mail has partially taken over the multiple functions of the traditional business letter and bypassed, again partially, the fax. However, the letter has also survived in its written form. ..."

Identity, Community, Discourse(1st Edition)
English in Intercultural Settings (Studies in Language and Communication)
by Giuseppina Cortese, Anna Duszak, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 495 Pages, Published 2005 by Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7163-1, ISBN: 0-8204-7163-1

"Languages are inseparable from their contexts of use. They are not only congruent with, but also involved in the configuration of the worldviews and value systems manifested in cultures and embodied in texts. The spread of English worldwide foregrounds the issue of textual dynamics in intercultural settings. The production/reception of texts in English facilitates international contacts and exchanges, yet it also triggers hegemonic prac ..."

Discursive Strategies in Multicultural Business Meetings
(Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communcation)
by Gina Poncini, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 338 Pages, Published 2004 by Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7003-0, ISBN: 0-8204-7003-1

"This book explores multiparty, multicultural interaction at international business meetings. It investigates discourse at an Italian company's meetings of its international distributors, conducted mainly in English and attended by participants from different countries in Europe, Asia and North America. Data come from audio recordings of the meetings, normally lasting two to three days, and are supplemented by the author's observations o ..."

English Modality in Context
Diachronic Perspectives (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication)
by Editor-David Hart, Professor Maurizio Gotti, David M. Hart
Paperback, 261 Pages, Published 2004 by Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-6852-5, ISBN: 0-8204-6852-5

"This volume presents a collection of papers which consider the phenomenon of modality in the context of English historical linguistics, in particular as a consequence of changes taking place at the beginning of the Early Modern period. The contributions, representing post-Lightfoot thinking, consider semantic and pragmatic approaches to the question in a generally corpus-based approach. It is essentially a review of modal forms in use, ..."

Corpora and Discourse
(Linguistic Insights,)
by Louann Haarman, Alan Partington, John Morley, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 420 Pages, Published 2004 by Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-6262-2, ISBN: 0-8204-6262-4

"Corpus linguistics has made impressive strides in the fields of lexicography and grammatical description, but has had relatively little to say as yet in describing features of discourse. This volume, then, examines how it is possible to use concordance technology and the detailed linguistic evidence available in corpora to enhance the study of, among other things, how speakers/writers organise their discourse, how they express evaluatio ..."

The Acquisition of German Modal Particles
A Corpus-Based Approach (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication)
by Martina Mollering, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2004 by Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-6273-8, ISBN: 0-8204-6273-X

"Following the rationale that corpora have an important part to play in fostering language awareness, this monograph investigates the use of spoken corpora in the teaching of German as a foreign language. Corpus-based research has had an increasing influence on language teaching pedagogy, with regard to linguistic content as well as to teaching methodology. While the majority of studies reporting on corpus-based teaching approaches refer ..."

Legal Discourse in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts
Arbitration Texts in Europe (Linguistic Insights)
by Professor Vijay Bhatia, Christopher N. Candlin Professor, Professor Maurizio Gotti, V. K. Bhatia, Vijay Kumar Bhatia
Paperback, 385 Pages, Published 2003 by Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-6254-7, ISBN: 0-8204-6254-3

"This volume presents the results of an International research project focussing on the lexico-grammatical, generic and textual analysis of legal discourse in multilingual and multicultural contexts. The particular focus of the investigation is the arbitration discourse in use in several European countries. This volume deals with the international arbitration discourse of legal documents in use in the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Fi ..."

Conflict and Negotiation in Specialized Texts
Selected Papers of the 2nd Cerlis Conference (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication) (English, French, German and Spanish Edition)
by Professor Maurizio Gotti, Professor Marina Dossena, Dorothee Heller
Paperback, 472 Pages, Published 2002 by Peter Lang Pub Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-5887-8, ISBN: 0-8204-5887-2

"This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Bergamo (18-20 October 2001), which focussed on the issues of conflict and negotiation in the language of specialized texts. The assembled contributions discuss different theoretical and methodological issues, and focus on a variety of aspects relating to the domain of legal, economic, scientific, academic and political discourse."

Asian Business Discourse(1st Edition)
by Professor Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2005 by Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7574-5, ISBN: 0-8204-7574-2

"This book reflects the vigorous interest in studies of business discourse(s) and culture(s) emerging from various Asian communities. It also records the diversity of methodological approaches, ontological perspectives and topics characterising a number of studies conducted by Asian and Western scholars on cultural and linguistic strategies and preferences identifiable in Asian or Asian-Western business interactions. The volume is struct ..."

Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Communication
(2nd Edition)
(Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication)
by Christopher N. Candlin, Maurizio Gotti, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 369 Pages, Published 2006 by Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-13: 978-3-03911-258-6, ISBN: 3-03911-258-9

"This volume explores intercultural communication in specialist fields and its realisations in language for specific purposes. Special attention is given to legal, commercial, political and institutional discourse used in particular workplaces, analysed from an intercultural perspective. The contributions explore to what extent intercultural pressure leads to particular discourse patternings and lexico-grammatical / phonological realisat ..."

Arbitration Discourse in Asia(Updated)
(Linguistic Insights)
by Professor Vijay K. Bhatia, Maurizio Gotti, Professor Maurizio Gotti, Scaravelli Enrico
Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2015 by Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-13: 978-3-0343-2032-0, ISBN: 3-0343-2032-9

"Arbitration is the most widely used alternative method to resolve commercial disputes between parties. Since arbitration in international contexts is equally applicable to legal traditions across the world, there has been incessant effort on the part of all jurisdictions to harmonize principles and practices to establish a unified system of arbitration. As differences are difficult to reconcile, there has been quite a bit of interest an ..."

Explorations in Specialized Genres(1st Edition)
(Studies in Language and Communication)
by Professor Maurizio Gotti, Professor Vijay K. Bhatia, Vijay Kumar Bhatia, Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 2006 by Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-13: 978-3-03910-995-1, ISBN: 3-03910-995-2

"Genre analysis has become firmly established as one of the most popular frameworks for the study of specialized genres in academic, professional and institutional as well as other workplace contexts. In recent years, genre theory has also developed in the direction of a more comprehensive and powerful multidimensional and multi-perspectived framework to examine not only the text but also the context in a much more meaningful manner than ..."

Insights Into Medical Communication(Updated)
(Linguistic Insights)
by Maurizio Gotti, Stefania Maria Maci, Michele Sala, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 422 Pages, Published 2015 by Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-13: 978-3-0343-1694-1, ISBN: 3-0343-1694-1

"This book analyses the subject of medical communication from a range of innovative perspectives, covering a broad spectrum of approaches and procedures that are particularly significant in this field. In this volume, medical communication is analyzed from various viewpoints: not only from a merely linguistic angle, with a focus on the description of the genres used in medical and healthcare contexts, but also from a social and cultural ..."

Corpus Analysis for Descriptive and Pedagogical Purposes(1st Edition)
ESP Perspectives (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication)
by Maurizio Gotti, Davide Simone Giannoni, Davide S. Giannoni, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2014 by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-3-0343-1516-6, ISBN: 3-0343-1516-3

"There is hardly any aspect of verbal communication that has not been investigated using the analytical tools developed by corpus linguists. This is especially true in the case of English, which commands a vast international research community, and corpora are becoming increasingly specialised, as they account for areas of language use shaped by specific sociolectal (register, genre, variety) and speaker (gender, profession, status) vari ..."

Interpersonality in Legal Genres(Updated)
(Linguistic Insights Studies in Language & Communication)
by Ruth Breeze, Maurizio Gotti, Carmen Sancho Guinda, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 389 Pages, Published 2014 by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-3-0343-1524-1, ISBN: 3-0343-1524-4

"Few concepts in Discourse Studies are so versatile and intricate and have been so frequently contested as <Iinterpersonality.</I This construct offers ample terrain for new research, since it can be viewed using a range of diverse theoretical frameworks, employing a variety of analytical tools and social perspectives.<BR Studies on the relationship between writer/reader and speaker/audience in the legal field are still scarce, dis ..."

The Discourses of Dispute Resolution(Updated)
(Linguistic Insights)
by Professor Candlin Christopher N., Professor Vijay K. Bhatia, Professor Maurizio Gotti, Vijay Kumar Bhatia, Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2010 by Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-13: 978-3-0343-0476-4, ISBN: 3-0343-0476-5

"This volume presents some of the findings from a project on various aspects of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), including conciliation, mediation, and arbitration. To study the discursive practices of ADR today, an international initiative has been undertaken by a group of specialists in discourse analysis, law, and arbitration from more than twenty countries. The chapters in this volume draw on discourse-based data (narrative, doc ..."

Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse(1st Edition)
(Linguistic Insights)
by Maurizio Gotti, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 398 Pages, Published 2009 by Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-13: 978-3-0343-0023-0, ISBN: 3-0343-0023-9

"This volume explores the relationship between shared disciplinary norms and individual traits in academic speech and writing. Despite the standardising pressure of cultural and language-related factors, academic communication remains in many ways a highly personal affair, with active participation in a disciplinary community requiring a multidimensional discourse that combines the professional, institutional, social and individual ident ..."

Doing Diversity(1st Edition)
Teachers' construction of their classroom reality (Linguistic Insights)
by Melinda Dooly, Professor Maurizio Gotti
Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2009 by Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-13: 978-3-03911-687-4, ISBN: 3-03911-687-8

"How teachers and students work together through discourse to construct their understanding of the context they live and work in will influence, in many different ways, the interaction within their classrooms. This book describes an indepth research that used ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study three different groups of teachers. The study highlights the teachers’ perspectives concerning heterogeneity in the classroom, us ..."