The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication

Vijay Bhatia is an Adjunct Professor in Macquarie University and University of Malaya. He is author of  Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings (1993) and Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-based View (2004). Stephen Bremner is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests are workplace writing, and the ways in which students make the transition from the academy to the workplace.

SECTION 1: APPROACHES TO PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

A. General theoretical frameworks






Analysing Discourse Variation in Professional Contexts - Vijay Bhatia



Corpus Analyses of Professional Discourse - Winnie Cheng



A Situated Genre Approach for Business Communication Education
in Cross-cultural Contexts - Yunxia Zhu




Stretching the Multimodal Boundaries of Professional Communication

in Multi-Resources Kits - Carmen Daniela Maier






Broad disciplinary frameworks






Business Communication - Catherine Nickerson



Business Communication: A Revisiting of Theory, Research, and Teaching - Bertha Du-Babcock



Research on Knowledge-Making in Professional Discourses: - Graham Smart, Stephani Currie, and
The Use of Theoretical Resources Matt Falconer




Technical Communication - Saul Carliner



The Complexities of Communication in Professional Workplaces - Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra



Electronic Media in Professional Communication - Goodman, Michael B. & Hirsch, Peter B.



The Role of Translation in Professional Communication - Marta Chroma






Specific disciplinary frameworks






Management Communication: Getting Work Done Through People - Priscilla S. Rogers



Business and the Communication of Climate Change:
An Organizational Discourse Perspective - David Grant and Daniel Nyberg




Professionalizing Organizational Communication Discourses, Materialities, - Patrice M. Buzzanell, Jeremy P. Fyke,
and Trends and Robyn V. Remke




Corporate Communication - Finn Frandsen and Winni Johansen



Corporate Communication and the Role of Annual Reporting – Identifying
Areas for Further Research - Elizabeth de Groot

SECTION 2: PRACTICE

A. Pedagogic perspectives




A Blended Needs Analysis -- Critical Genre Analysis and Needs Analysis
of Language and Communication for Professional Purposes - Jane Lung




The Changing Landscape of Business Communication - Sujata Kathpalia and Koo Swit Ling



Methodology for Teaching ESP - William Littlewood

B. Disciplinary perspectives






English for Science and Technology - Lindsay Miller



Communicative Dimensions of Professional Accounting Work - Alan Jones



Professional Communication in the Legal Domain - Christoph A. Hafner



Communication in the Construction Industry - Michael Handford



Offshore Outsourcing: The Need for Appliable Linguistics - Gail Forey



Media Communication: Current Trends and Future Challenges - Isabel Corona



The Public Relations Industry and its Place in Professional Communication
Theory and Practice: past, present and future perspectives - Anne Peirson-Smith

SECTION 3: ACQUISITION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE




Communities in Studies of Discursive Practices and Discursive Practices
in Communities - Becky S.C. Kwan




The Formation of a Professional Communicator: A Socio-Rhetorical
Approach - Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox




Collaborative Writing: Challenges for Research and Teaching - Stephen Bremner



Training the Call Centre Communications Trainers in the Asian BPO Industry - Jane Lockwood



Credentialing of Communication Professionals - Saul Carliner

SECTION 4: VIEW FROM THE PROFESSIONS






Banking



Law



Accounting

PR