This book delivers essential skills in "spoken" professional communications, presenting theoretical and applied frameworks for business talk using English as a lingua franca. Adopting a role-playing approach mimicking various professional settings, it assesses the strength of the well-reasoned argument, the logical links that convince the audience of the coherence of the speaker's argument and the necessary linguistics competencies. This book centers on a variety of situations that commonly take place in business organizations (such as relational talk; call center talk; job application talk) and addresses key skills such as conflict resolution and collaborative problem solving through communication, which are key for both students and practitioners. In addition it analyses spoken business discourse data with the four main sources of communicative competence: grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence in order to highlight howtheyare used in business speaking practices.
"The book under review might be used as a practical guide in Business English as Lingua Franca classes, with materials highlighting both rhetorical moves and phraseology which might be useful in actual work situations. ... Jung's book can be seen as a springboard for students willing to approach business communication for the first time, as well as for teachers and researchers who are interested in further exploring role-play conversations from both a teaching and cross-cultural perspective." (Jessica Jane Nocella, Revista de Lenguas para fines específicos, Vol. 30, 2024)