Language, communication and the economy / edited by Guido Erreygers, Geert Jacobs.

This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics. It explores in what way economics can contribute to the analysis of discursive practices in various institutional settings as well as investigating what...

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Other Authors: Erreygers, Guido, 1959-, Jacobs, Geert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2005.
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 16.
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Summary:This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics. It explores in what way economics can contribute to the analysis of discursive practices in various institutional settings as well as investigating what role discourse studies can play in economic research. The contributors are linguists, communication scholars, economists and other social scientists drawing on various traditions including Critical Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, ethnography and the literature on the rhetoric of economic.
Item Description:"In May 2002 an international conference on 'Text and economics' was held at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) ... The present volume contains a selection of the papers that were read ..."--Preface
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027294036
9027294038
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.