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This book examines how discourse analysts could best disseminate their research findings in real world settings. Each chapter presents a study of spoken or written discourse with authors putting forward a plan for how to engage professional practice in their work, using this volume's Framework for Application. Techniques used include Conversation Analysis in combination with other methods, Genre Analysis in combination with other methods, and Critical Discourse Analysis. Contributions are loosely grouped by setting and include the following: workplace and business settings; education settings; private and public settings; and government and media settings. The volume aims to link the end of research and the onset of praxis by helping analysts to move forward with ideas for dissemination, collaboration and even intervention. The book will be of interest to all researchers conducting discourse analysis in professional settings.

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This book is a wake-up call to applied linguists everywhere. It illustrates what many linguists have tacitly understood but have been unfortunately slow to act upon. It convincingly demonstrates that education is not the only area in which linguistic expertise has important insights to offer. Like no other book, it provides a stimulating menu of models in which linguists can (and should) apply their theory and research to a wide range of other areas, including business, mediation, negotiation, politics, family communication, and the media. -- Roger W. Shuy, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University, USA This thoughtful and thought-provoking book is, unusually, about academic research on language making a difference in non-academics' lives. The editor has done us all a great service in gathering together a lively, at times fascinating and inspiring, set of reports. The variety is wide, and the commitment is deep. -- Charles Antaki, Loughborough University, UK From the Afterword The present book is a most welcome contribution to the development of applied linguistics. The editor and authors who have worked to assemble this volume merit the attention, appreciation and emulation of the wider world of applied linguistics, so that...applied linguistics programmes and research are genuinely fit for purpose. -- Martin Bygate, St. Mary's College, London, UK From the Foreword

The present book is a most welcome contribution to the development of applied linguistics. The editor and authors who have worked to assemble this volume merit the attention, appreciation and emulation of the wider world of applied linguistics, so that...applied linguistics programmes and research are genuinely fit for purpose. From the Foreword, Martin Bygate, Professorial Research Fellow, St. Mary's College, London, UK; This thoughtful and thought-provoking book is, unusually, about academic research on language making a difference in non-academics' lives. The editor has done us all a great service in gathering together a lively, at times fascinating and inspiring, set of reports. The variety is wide, and the commitment is deep. We look forward to its sequel(s). From the Afterword, Charles Antaki, Professor of Language and Social Psychology, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK

The present book is a most welcome contribution to the development of applied linguistics. The editor and authors who have worked to assemble this volume merit the attention, appreciation and emulation of the wider world of applied linguistics, so that...applied linguistics programmes and research are genuinely fit for purpose. From the Foreword, Martin Bygate, Professorial Research Fellow, St. Mary's College, London, UK; This thoughtful and thought-provoking book is, unusually, about academic research on language making a difference in non-academics' lives. The editor has done us all a great service in gathering together a lively, at times fascinating and inspiring, set of reports. The variety is wide, and the commitment is deep. We look forward to its sequel(s). From the Afterword, Charles Antaki, Professor of Language and Social Psychology, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK; This book is a wake-up call to applied linguists everywhere. It illustrates what many linguists have tacitly understood but have been unfortunately slow to act upon. It convincingly demonstrates that education is not the only area in which linguistic expertise has important insights to offer. Like no other book, it provides a stimulating menu of models in which linguists can (and should) apply their theory and research to a wide range of other areas, including business, mediation, negotiation, politics, family communication, and the media. Roger W. Shuy, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University, USA

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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.

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