Engagement in professional genres / edited by Carmen Sancho Guinda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guinda, Carmen Sancho, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 301.

Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; Volume 301

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal communication.

Interpersonal relations.

Engagement (Philosophy).

Disclosure of information.

Physical Description:

xiv, 373 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Contents:

Foreword: Bringing in the reader / Ken Hyland

1. Networking engagement in professional practices: Towards an integrative view / Carmen Sancho Guinda

2. Positioning and proximity of reader engagement: Authorial identity in professional and apprentice academic genres / Feng (Kevin) Jiang and Xiaohao Ma

3. Authorial engagement in business emails: A cross-cultural analysis of attitude and engagement markers / María Luisa CarriPastor

4. Challenging the concept of pure objectivity in British and Spanish hard news reports: The case of the Second Lebanon War / Anne McCabe and Isabel Alonso Belmonte

5. Rebuilding trust in the banking sector: Engaging with readers in corporate press releases / Yvonne McLaren-Hankin

6. Interrogative engagement as a pragmatic and textual function in Legal Studies / Michele Sala

7. Patients engaging their doctors in the doctor-patient relationship: Discourse perspectives on relationship-centred care / Robyn Woodward-Kron, Emily Wilson and Jane Gall

8. 'Let's have that conversation on next quarter's call': (Dis)engagement markers in Q&A sessions of earnings conference calls / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

9. Multiplying engagement: Visual-verbal intersemiosis in an online medical research article / Daniel Lees Fryer

10. Researchers' move from page to screen: Addressing the effects of the video article format upon academic user engagement and knowledge-building processes / Jan Engberg and Carmen Daniela Maier

11. Recruitment websites and the socialization of new employees: Dialogicity and graduation / Ruth Breeze

12. Verbal and nonverbal engagement devices in business persuasive discourse: The elevator pitch / Mercedes Díez Prados

13. Scifotainment: Evolving multimodal engagement in online science news / Yiqiong Zhang

14. How much do U.S. patents disclose? A generic game of hide-and-seek / Ismael Arinas Pelln

15. Gestural silence: An engagement device in the multimodal genre of the chalk talk lecture / Chloë G. Fogarty-Bourget, Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox

16. Silence and engagement in the multimodal genre of synchronous videoconferencing lectures: The case of Didactics in Mathematics / Mercedes Querol-Julián and Blanca Arteaga-Martønez

17. Organizational metadiscourse across lecturing styles: Engagement beyond language / Edgar Bernad-Mechand Inmaculada Fortanet-Gmez

18. Engagement of readers/customers in the discourse of e-tourism promotional genres / Francisca Suau-Jiménez

Notes on contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Engagement in professional genres

ISBN:

9789027202185

9027202184

OCLC:

1055678959