Good Data in Business and Professional Discourse Research and Teaching

Geert Jacobs is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium. Sofie Decock is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium.

• 1. What Counts as Good Data in Business and Professional Discourse Research and Training?.- 2. Workplace Research and Applications in Real World Contexts: The Case of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project.- 3. What is Professional in a Professional Magazine? Using Corpus Analysis to Identify Specializedness in Professional Discourse and Culture.- 4. Researching Trust in Business Partnerships: Reflections on Data Collection and Positionality.- 5. Measuring Competence for Global Business: In Search of Authentic Data in Japanese Business Corporations.- 6. Leveraging Student-Led Interviews in the Multilingual Workplace.- 7. Coworking: A Rhetorical Enterprise Situated in Place.

“A collection of diverse, direct and honest contributions to the theme announced, each of them having a unique relevance, for shedding light on the specificities of the region, the style and the system they belong to, and bringing about the distinct touches of the researchers authoring them. … this present work adds value to the research in the field and comes as useful for all stakeholders in business domains, in professional communication and in languages for specific purposes.” (Ioana Claudia Horea and Cristian Dorin Horea,Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, Issue 8, March, 2021)