The Discourse of Business Meetings Agency and Power in Financial Organizations /

• Main Author: AlHaidari, Fatma M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Applied linguistics.; Sociolinguistics.; Discourse analysis.; Public relations.; Applied Linguistics.; Discourse Analysis.; Corporate Communication/Public Relations.; Language and Gender.

This book examines the social organizational discourse of task-oriented business meetings in a Kuwaiti financial organization and an American non-profit trade organisation. Focusing primarily on the linguistic behaviours demonstrating agency and power of managers and staff members displayed during t...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Business Discourse and Organizational Business Meetings across Disciplines
• Chapter 3. Fieldwork in Organizations
• Chapter 4. An integrated analytical framework for interpreting the meeting data
• Chapter 5. Analyzing Innovative Kuwait Co. meeting data
• Chapter 6. Analyzing Global Phoenix meeting data
• Chapter 7. Compare and Contrast
• Chapter 8. Conclusion and Future Directions in Business Discourse.