The Business of Words (eBook, ePUB)

Wordsmiths, Linguists, and Other Language Workers
Redaktion: Thurlow, Crispin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Business of Words examines the practices of 'high-end' language workers or wordsmiths. An essential resource for researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Language, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Communication and Media Studies, and Anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351041768
• Artikelnr.: 57252453

Autorenporträt

Crispin Thurlow is Professor of Language and Communication in the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Chapter 1 - The (Grubby) Business of Words: What 'George Clooney' Tells Us
Part 1: Language Work and the Business of Words
Chapter 2 - Unequal Language Work(ers) in the Business of Words
Chapter 3 - The Linguistic Business of Marketing
Part 2: Wordsmiths and Professional Language Work
Chapter 4 - Unwriteable Discourse? Co-crafting the Language of Science News
Chapter 5 - Voice Work: Learning About and From Dialect Coaches
Chapter 6 - EAT, LOVE and Other (Small) Stories: Tellability and
Multimodality in Robert Indiana's Word Art
Chapter 7 - Judges as Wordsmiths: Crafting Clarity and Neutrality in
Summing-up for Juries
Chapter 8 - Making (up) the News: The Artful Language Work of Journalists
in 'Reporting' Taboo
Part 3: Linguists and Political Economies of Expertise
Chapter 9 - Framing Elite Knowledge in Shifting Linguistic Economies: The
Case of Minority Language Translation
Chapter 10 - Beyond the Academic 'But': The Pleasures and Politics of
Collaborative Language Work in the Publishing Industry
Chapter 11 - The Commercialisation of Linguistic Expertise in the Asylum
Vetting Process
Chapter 12 - Engaging with School Principals as Language Policy Workers
Index