Linking Discourse Studies to Professional Practice

Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY (City University of New York). She has taught, presented and published on the topics of discourse analysis, critical discourse, genre analysis, genre transfer and genre-based teaching, acquisition of second language writing and second language teaching.

• List of ContributorsLubie G. Alatriste: PrefaceMartin Bygate: Foreword1. Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste: Framework for Application of Research Findings: An IntroductionWorkplace and Business Settings2. Spencer Hazel: Institutional Identity Negotiations in Multilingual Workplace Settings3. Joowon Suh: English as Lingua Franca in Multilingual Business Negotiations: Managing Miscommunication using Other-Initiated Repairs4. Santoi Wagner: Asymmetrical Aspects of Knowledge in Mediation Talk5. Evelyne Pochon-Berger, Simona Pekarek Doehler and Clelia König: Family Conversational Storytelling at the Margins of the Workplace: The case of Au-pair Girls6. Pekka Pälli and Esa Lehtinen: Practical Genre Knowledge as Professional Competence: The Case of Managerial MeetingsEducational Settings7. Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste: The Centrality of Communicative Purpose in Student Written Discourse8. Gabrielle Kahn: Narrative Discourse in the Second-Language Classroom9. Elena Davitti: Interpreter-mediated Parent-Teacher TalkPrivate and Public Settings10. Rebekah Johnson: Negotiating Adult Child Identity in Family Discourse11. Leslie Cochrane: Positioning Selves with Physical Disabilities in NarrativeGovernment and Media Settings12. Kerrie R. H. Farkas: On the City Council Meetings’ Sidelines: Negotiating Changes in Citizen Involvement13. Liang Xia and Wei Wang: Reframed News Discourse: The Manipulative Impact of Translation on News Making14. Roger Frantz: Analyzing Media Discourse on Same-Sex MarriageCharles Antaki: AfterwordReferencesIndex

Especially in cases in which the starting point of the research involves collaborating with practitioners to identify their perceived issues and needs, pragmatic usefulness often drives the choice of analytic tools, leading to increasingly interdisciplinary approaches. The book’s approach thus encourages readers to think outside their own disciplinary boxes.