Language and Creativity at Work: A Corpus-Assisted Model of Creative Workplace Discourse explores linguistic creativity at work as well as the role of language in creative processes in the workplace. Using a mixed-methods approach involving corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, this book: <ul> <li>Provides a critical comparison of previous studies in language and creativity in a linguistic context as well as in the context of businesses and entrepreneurship, and considers the insights that can be gained from both approaches</li> <li>Argues the case for workplace creativity as a linguistic and discursive phenomenon in addition to a cognitive or relational one</li> <li>Presents a model of creative workplace discourse that integrates creative language, the creative actions involving language, and alignment between speakers</li> <li>Employs spoken corpus data from a range of workplace contexts recorded over a 20-year period;</li> <li>Examines professional practice and creativity in two different professional contexts: a residential care home and a small start-up company, and explores the roles of constraints, leadership and alignment in these contexts</li> <li>Critically interrogates the notion of creativity as an inherently positive phenomenon and analyses instances of problematic creativity in the workplace</li> <li>Demonstrates how corpora can be used to underscore assessments of creativity and its realisations in real dialogic contexts.</li> </ul> This book fills an important gap in the literature on creativity within both language and organisational studies, and as such will be key reading for students and researchers of English language, applied linguistics, communication studies and business management.

Language and Creativity at Work (Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics)

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Handford, Michael

Koester, Almut

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

The Language of Work (Intertext)

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. The Language of Work:  examines how language is used in business and the workplace, looking at a range of situations and data: from meetings to informal negotiations, promotional letters to emails explores representations of work in advertising, career magazines and workplace talk looks at the way people in business interact through small talk, politeness, customer care and management-employee relationships is illustrated with lively examples taken from the real world and includes a full index of terms features a useful section on entering the world of work, exploring job adverts and texts that give advice on CV writing and developing 'transferable skills'.

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Social Sciences

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. The Language of Work: <ul>
<li>examines how language is used in business and the workplace, looking at a range of situations and data: from meetings to informal negotiations, promotional letters to emails</li> <li>explores representations of work in advertising, career magazines and workplace talk</li> <li>looks at the way people in business interact through small talk, politeness, customer care and management-employee relationships</li> <li>is illustrated with lively examples taken from the real world and includes a full index of terms</li> <li>features a useful section on entering the world of work, exploring job adverts and texts that give advice on CV writing and developing 'transferable skills'.</li>
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Investigating Workplace Discourse (Domains of Discourse)

Exploring the characteristics of different types of workplace conversations, including decision-making, training, briefing or making arrangements, this enthralling account pays particular attention to interactions with a more social focus, such as small talk or office gossip. Presenting a range of approaches to analyzing such workplace discourse, Almut Koester argues for a combination of quantitative corpus-based methods, to compare specific linguistic features in different genres and qualitative methods involving a close analysis of individual conversations, to explore such issues as politeness, power, conflict and consensus-building. A corpus of conversations recorded in a variety of office environments both in the UK and the USA is used throughout to demonstrate the interplay between speakers accomplishing tasks and maintaining relationships in the workplace.

Business & Money

Exploring the characteristics of different types of workplace conversations, including decision-making, training, briefing or making arrangements, this enthralling account pays particular attention to interactions with a more social focus, such as small talk or office gossip.  Presenting a range of approaches to analyzing such workplace discourse, Almut Koester argues for a combination of quantitative corpus-based methods, to compare specific linguistic features in different genres and qualitative methods involving a close analysis of individual conversations, to explore such issues as politeness, power, conflict and consensus-building. A corpus of conversations recorded in a variety of office environments both in the UK and the USA is used throughout to demonstrate the interplay between speakers accomplishing tasks and maintaining relationships in the workplace.

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Business Advantage Upper-intermediate Student's Book with DVD

Lisboa, Martin

Pitt, Angela

Cambridge University Press

An innovative, new multi-level course for the university and in-company sector. Business Advantage is the course for tomorrow's business leaders. Based on a unique syllabus that combines current business theory, business in practice and business skills - all presented using authentic, expert input - the course contains specific business-related outcomes that mate the material highly relevant and engaging. The audio CDs (2) contain all of the listening materials accompanying the Student's Book. The Business Advantage Upper-intermediate level books include input from the following leading institutions and organisations: the Cambridge Judge Business School, the Boston Consulting Group, Nokia, Dell, and Havaianas - to name but a few.

Business Advantage Upper-intermediate Audio CDs (2)

An innovative, new multi-level course for the university and in-company sector. Business Advantage is the course for tomorrow's business leaders. Based on a unique syllabus that combines current business theory, business in practice and business skills - all presented using authentic, expert input - the course contains specific business-related outcomes that make the material highly relevant and engaging. The Business Advantage Intermediate level books include input from the following leading institutions and organisations: the Cambridge Judge Business School, IKEA, Emirates NBD, Isuzu and Unilever - to name but a few. The Student's Book comes with a free DVD of video case studies.

Business Advantage Intermediate Student's Book with DVD

An innovative, new multi-level course for the university and in-company sector. Business Advantage is the course for tomorrow's business leaders. Based on a unique syllabus that combines current business theory, business in practice and business skills - all presented using authentic, expert input - the course contains specific business-related outcomes that make the material highly relevant and engaging. The Business Advantage Intermediate level books include input from the following leading institutions and organisations: the Cambridge Judge Business School, IKEA, Emirates NBD, Isuzu and Unilever - to name but a few. The Audio CDs (2) contain all of the listening materials accompanying the Student's Book.

Business Advantage Intermediate Audio CDs (2)

This adaptation of Essential Grammar in Use especially for German learners offers: a particular focus on those areas of grammar German elementary learners find problematic; German language support to the grammar descriptions and explanations; translation exercises to raise learners' awareness of the differences between German and English.

Essential Grammar in Use with Answers German edition

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Language and Creativity at Work (Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics)

The Language of Work (Intertext)

The Language of Work (Intertext)

Investigating Workplace Discourse (Domains of Discourse)

Investigating Workplace Discourse (Domains of Discourse)

Business Advantage Upper-intermediate Student's Book with DVD

Business Advantage Upper-intermediate Audio CDs (2)

Business Advantage Intermediate Student's Book with DVD

Business Advantage Intermediate Audio CDs (2)

Essential Grammar in Use with Answers German edition