Language in professional life
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1 Brands and branding
  • 2 Verbal identity
  • 3 Case study: Innocent Drinks
    • 3.1 Packaging
    • 3.2 Personality
    • 3.3 Brand name and logo
  • 4 Summary of Week 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 What is EAP?
  • 2 Using corpora in the EAP classroom
  • 3 First-person pronouns
  • 4 Assisting EAL students
  • 5 Students’ views
  • 6 Benefits of using corpora
  • 7 The teacher’s perspective
  • 8 Building your own corpus
  • 9 Further exploration
  • 10 Summary of Week 2
  • Introduction
  • 1 Defining organisational culture
  • 2 Where is organisational culture?
  • 3 Case study: Linguistic Landscapes
  • 4 Culture and language
  • 5 Constructing relationships through language
  • 6 Positioning organisations as authorities
  • 7 Working with NGOs
  • 8 Changing the culture
  • 9 Summary of Week 3
  • Introduction
  • 1 Describing clinical symptoms
  • 2 Generic features of a clinical consultation
  • 3 Summary of Week 4
  • Further reading
  • Introduction
  • 1 The scope of speech and language therapy
  • 2 The nature of an SLT’s interventions
  • 3 Speech and language therapy with bilingual children
  • 4 Summary of Week 5
  • Introduction
  • 1 Mediation as a professional domain
  • 2 Mediation, conflict resolution and language study
  • 3 The work of a mediator
  • 4 Managing interpersonal meaning
  • 5 The manipulation of grammar?
  • 6 Language used to hedge or soften
  • 7 Moving clients towards new views of a situation
  • 8 Summary of Week 6
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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