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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a corpus of authentic business studies lectures, focusing on spoken, academic, disciplinary and professional features (e.g., speech rate, interactive devices, specialized lexis) that are crucial to comprehension, but often problematic for non-native speakers. The investigation adopts an original multi-pronged approach including quantitative, qualitative and comparative analyses. It utilizes techniques drawn mainly from corpus linguistics.

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