Power, Persuasion and Manipulation in Specialised Genres
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Power, Persuasion and Manipulation in Specialised Genres: Providing Keys to the Rhetoric of Professional Communities(227 Linguistic Insights)

Power, Persuasion and Manipulation in Specialised Genres: Providing Keys to the Rhetoric of Professional Communities(227 Linguistic Insights)


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This volume focuses on the study of linguistic manipulation, persuasion and power in the written texts of professional communication, to go further into the understanding of how they are constructed, interpreted, used and exploited in the achievement of specific goals. Such texts are here contemplated from the stance of genre theory, which starts from the premise that specialised communities have a high level of rhetorical sophistication, the keys to which are offered solely to their members. In particular, the book investigates the communicative devices that serve the need of such professions to exert power and manipulation, and to use persuasion. The perspective adopted in this work does not envisage power simply as a distant, alienated and alienating supremacy from above, but as an everyday, socialized and embodied phenomenon. To attain its goal, the volume brings forth studies on the language of several professions belonging to various specialised fields such as law and arbitration, engineering, economics, advertising, business, politics, medicine, social work, education and the media.

Table of Contents:
María Ángeles Orts/Ruth Breeze: Introduction – Vijay K. Bhatia/Aditi Bhatia: Interdiscursive Manipulation in Media Reporting: The Case of the Panama Papers in India – Ana Bocanegra-Valle: Empowering the Discourse of Globalization in International Organizations: The International Maritime Organization as a Case in Point – Shirley Carter-Thomas/Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet: Maintaining a Dominant Voice: A Syntactic Analysis of the Way Power is Wielded in Medical Editorials – Giuliana Elena Garzone: Persuasive Strategies on Surrogacy Websites: A Discourse-Analytical and Rhetorical Study – Esther Monzó-Nebot: ‘Silence will Break my Bones’: The Presentation and Representation of Victims and Perpetrators at the Service of Just-world Views in Judicial Discourse – Pascual Pérez-Paredes: A Keyword Analysis of the 2015 UK Higher Education Green Paper and the Twitter Debate – Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler: Persuading against Gender Violence: An Interdiscursive Genre Analysis – Daniel Gallego-Hernández: Persuasion in Promotional Banking Products: A Comparative Corpus-based Study – Diana Giner: Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion in the Reasoning of International Investment Arbitral Awards – Maurizio Gotti: Power and Persuasion in Arbitration: East vs West – Juan C. Palmer-Silveira: Showing Power and Persuasion in Business Communication: The Corporate News Section in Websites and Social Media – Carmen Sancho Guinda: Transmitting Authority in Risk Communication: An Exploration of U.S. Air-Accident Dockets Online – Holly Vass: The Role of Hedging in Balancing Power and Persuasion in the Judicial Context: The Case of Majority and Dissenting Opinions

About the Author :
María Ángeles Orts (University of Murcia, Spain) teaches Professional English, especially in the areas of law, economy and business. She has published extensively on economic and legal lexicon, corruption crimes and gender violence, power and legitimation in legal texts, and the translation and interpretation of legal genres. Ruth Breeze is senior lecturer in English at the University of Navarra, Spain. Her most recent books are Corporate Discourse (Bloomsbury Academic 2015) and the co-edited volumes Essential Competencies for English-Medium University Teaching (Springer 2016) and Evaluation in Media Discourse: European Perspectives (Peter Lang 2017). Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Director of the Centre for LSP Research (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His main areas of investigation are the features and origins of specialized discourse.

Review :
«[...] I find the book a very interesting and valuable addition to genre theory. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to study the many facets of linguistic manipulation, persuasion and power in professional communication.» (Sabina Halupka-Resetar, ESP Today 6/1 2018) Read the full review here


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  • ISBN-13: 9783034330107
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 227 Linguistic Insights
  • Weight: 734 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3034330103
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jul 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 386
  • Sub Title: Providing Keys to the Rhetoric of Professional Communities
  • Width: 150 mm


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