Analysing professional genres /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 74
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 74.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11098607
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Other authors / contributors:Trosborg, Anna, 1937-
ISBN:9789027283764
9027283761
1283174642
9781283174640
9786613174642
6613174645
155619921X
9781556199219
9027250898
9789027250896
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:An understanding of genres in communication (written and spoken) is essential to professional success. This volume studies situationally appropriate responses in professional communication in face-to-face interaction and distance communication, from a socio-cognitive point of view. A traditional rhetorical approach does not give much insight in the ways in which genres are embedded in communicative activity or how actors draw upon genre knowledge to perform effectively. However, if genres are considered as embedded in social interaction "as typified forms of typified circumstances", the rich d
Other form:Print version: Analysing professional genres. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000 155619921X