The language of business studies lectures : a corpus-assisted analysis / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camiciottoli, Belinda Crawford.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 157.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 157

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic language--Data processing.

Academic language.

Business education--Data processing.

Business education.

Lectures and lecturing--Data processing.

Lectures and lecturing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What the learners really need is the competence to handle several types of literacy, which may not be a simple extension of previously acquired communicative competence. (Bhatia 2000: 81).

Contents:

The Language of Business Studies Lectures

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

List of acronyms and abbreviations

List of tables and figures

chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Rationale for the study

1.2 The university lecture: pros and cons

1.3 Aims of the study

1.4 Target readership

1.5 Overview of the book

chapter 2

Background to the study

The merger of discourses

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Spoken discourse

2.2.1 The linguistic/discursive approach

2.2.2 The interactional approach

2.3 Academic discourse

2.4 Disciplinary discourse: the field of economics

2.5 Professional discourse: the world of business

2.6 A conceptual framework for analyzing business studies lectures

chapter 3

The business studies lecture corpus

Design, collection and analysis

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Corpus design

3.3 Collecting the data

3.4 Transcribing the data

3.5 Methodology: an integrated approach

3.5.1 Quantitative and qualitative analysis

3.5.2 Comparative analysis

3.5.3 Behavioural observation

3.5.4 Participant feedback

chapter 4

Speaking to the audience

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Speech rate

4.3 Lecture style

4.3.1 Discourse dysfluencies

4.3.2 Reduced forms

4.4 Lexical informality

4.4.1 Vagueness

4.4.2 Idioms

4.5 Syntactic informality

4.5.1 Ellipsis

4.5.2 Non-restrictive which-clauses

4.6 Lexical density

4.7 Summary of findings

chapter 5

Interacting with the learners

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Discourse structuring

5.2.1 Lecture macrostructure

5.2.2 Macromarkers

5.2.3 Micromarkers

5.3 Evaluation

5.3.1 Relevance markers

5.3.2 Affect markers

5.4 Lecturer-audience interaction

5.4.1 Questions

5.4.2 Comprehension checks

5.4.3 Dialogic episodes.

5.5 Audience responsiveness and feedback

5.6 Summary of findings

chapter 6

Teaching the discipline and the profession

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Disciplinary/professional orientations: a descriptive profile

6.3 Real vs. hypothetical worlds

6.4 Argumentation

6.5 Specialized lexis

6.5.1 Global analysis

6.5.2 Keyword analysis

6.5.3 Connections to Business English

6.5.4 Compounds and buzzwords

6.6 Metaphors

6.6.1 Global analysis

6.6.2 Comparative analysis

6.7 Summary of findings

chapter 7

Beyond speaking

Multimodal aspects

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The visual mode

7.2.1 The analytical framework

7.2.2 The analysis

7.2.2.1 Visual typologies in the BSLC

7.2.2.2 Comparative analyses

7.3 The nonverbal mode

7.3.1 Methodology in nonverbal studies

7.3.2 The analysis

7.3.2.1 Interpersonal episodes

7.3.2.2 Nonverbal behaviours of the lecturers

7.3.2.3 A microanalysis of one lecturer's nonverbal behaviours

7.4 Summary of findings

chapter 8

Final remarks

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Aims, findings, pedagogical implications and research prospects

8.3 Methodological insights

8.4 Business studies lectures and interdiscursivity revisited

References

Appendix A

Transcript samples fromthe twelve lectures of the BSLC

Appendix B

Specialized lexis in the BSLC ranked according to frequency (number of tokens in parentheses)

Name index

Subject index

The series Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612154546

9781282154544

1282154540

9789027292421

9027292426

OCLC:

320323518