Professional Discourse Situations as Quanta of Professional Communication

2019 ◽  
pp. 267-303
Author(s):  
Igor V. Chekulai ◽  
Olga N. Prokhorova ◽  
Anna V. Kiseleva
Keyword(s):  
Professional Communication ◽  
Professional Discourse

The problem of teaching communicative tactics in English-language professional discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Svetlana S. Andreeva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Language Documentation ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
The Will

The work discusses the problem of teaching students of civil engineering departments English-language civil engineering discourse, in particular, communicative tactics of this type of discourse. We substantiate the need to form students’ skills in using the communicative tactics applied in civil engineering discourse in professional communication. We give an overview of com-municative tactics of written discourse used by the authors of English-language documentation in civil engineering professional field. The purpose of the study is to determine the level of students’ skills in using communicative tactics in a foreign language professional written speech. Theoretical and practical research showed that in a modern technical university, insufficient attention is paid to teaching students this component of professional discourse. At the same time, the level of students’ skills to use communicative tactics in professional communication is quite low, which led us to the conclusion that it is of paramount importance to include this component in the pro-gram of teaching a foreign language in a professional field. The results of the will serve as the ba-sis for the development of a methodic model of teaching civil engineering students the communic-ative tactics of professional civil engineering discourse.

scholarly journals DENOMINATION OF DOSAGE FORMS IN RUSSIA: DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Olga B. Burdina ◽  
◽  
Olga G. Olekhnovich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Dosage Forms ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Terminology System

The research deals with the issue of terms and their functioning in professional discourse. According to the cognitive and discourse approach, a term is regarded as a representative of knowledge which participates in the processes of receiving, processing, storing and transmitting information about the world and human activity. The purpose of the research is to investigate the linguistic characteristics of terms belonging to the pharmaceutical terminology system at different stages of its development. The article contains analysis of two sets of terms introduced during two historical periods: at the stage of formation of the terminology system (17th century) and at the modern stage (since the beginning of the 21st century). Each of the stages is represented by its own type of terminologization. The research material is composed of Latin/Latinized and Russian terms with the meaning ‘dosage form’ found in pharmaceutical documents (handwritten recipes of the 17th century from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts; State Pharmacopoeias of the Russian Federation). The first part of the study describes the thematic group ‘names of dosage forms’ of the 17th century. Latin and corresponding Russian terms and nomenclature names formed on their basis are analyzed in this part. The reason for the presence of variations within the terminology group is studied. In the second part of the paper, the linguistic and extralinguistic reasons for the transformation of this group of terminological units are studied, the productivity of new models for the denomination of dosage forms is analyzed. Methodologically, the study is based on the comparative, structural, etymological methods of analysis, the expert method (used when selecting terms from the collection of pharmaceutical texts) and terminological modeling. The authors came to the following conclusions: being an instrument of language of professional communication, a term expresses a special concept and develops in the process of functioning; due to its dynamic nature, a term develops in discourse and forms new connections within the terminology system of the professional discourse (pharmacy, in the case of our study); on the other hand, the development of the terminology system contributes to the process of ordering terminology.

scholarly journals Oil and gas business specialists’ professional discourse structure and functions study

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01221
Author(s):  
Liliya Z. Samigullina ◽  
Elina F. Samigullina
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Knowledge Presentation ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Structure And Functions

The article deals with professional discourse which is defined as a speech in the aspect of the event, permeated with extralinguistic, sociocultural, psychological, professional and other factors, as a verbal communication aimed at theoretical and practical business problems solution and requiring special training and experience in a definite sphere of activity. The situation in professional discourse is a kind of professional knowledge presentation depending on the participants’ personal experience. The structure and the main functions of professional discourse are revealed. The fixed and stereotyped character of any professional activity gives a solid ground for professional domains conceptual linguistic modelling, viewed as a base for languages for specific purposes ideographic description. The linguistic modelling can be carried out within the framework of cognitive spheres I. “Nature”. II. “Man”. III. “Society”. IV. “Cognition (a priori)”. The developed professional discourse description model could serve both the needs of the anthropological theory of language and the need to improve the practice of professional communication in different fields.

Fostering civility and politeness awareness in professional discourse: Critical genre analysis of course books in professional communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-329
Author(s):  
Alcina Pereira de Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Service Encounter ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis paper aims to analyse a set of communicative events within the service encounter genre in tourism and leisure interdiscursive domains as displayed in course books on professional communication in English (commonly pointing to ESP). These supposedly replicate interaction in real life settings. Therefore, it is relevant to uncover the ways authentic interactions can be interpreted in the pedagogical setting of workplace conversation from a discursive and pragmatic perspective. More specifically, this empirical and exploratory study discusses ways of improving rapport management skills in interpersonal and intercultural communication, in general, and in professional interaction, in particular, in a selection of excerpts on greeting / asking for info exchanges. The study uncovers participants’ possible co-constructions of civility and politeness strategies in naturally occurring classroom discourse supported by course materials in English for glocal communication across segments in the tourism domain as object of this study.

scholarly journals MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE WITHIN THE COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Vishnyakova ◽  
O. D. Vishnyakova ◽  
A. V. Kiseleva
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Medical Discourse ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Patient Functioning ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Doctor Communication

Research into professional discourse is closely connected with the multilayer analysis of ESP within the cognitive linguistic framework. It is very important to consider the anthropocentric focus of the cognitive discursive paradigm and the special attention traditionally paid to the linguistic representation of certain mental structures which serve as a basis for professional communication. Medical discourse studies have a lot to do with the communicative activity involving human life and health, that is why medical discourse needs to be analyzed from the viewpoints of anthropocentric and functional linguistic approaches, as research into various kinds of verbal interactions encompasses both professional communication among specialists and patient-doctor communication, a patient functioning simultaneously as the subject and the recipient of medical aid. As far as specific mental structures are concerned, verbal expressiveness depends on the functional properties of corresponding language units, their pragmatic and communicative characteristics, which tend to be manifested in conceptual metaphorical representation. The aim of this article is to analyze vast empirical material and single out the most significant cognitive linguistic peculiarities of modern English medical discourse. Cognitive linguistic approach allows scientists to define the essence of professional languages as well as to contemplate other research prospects in the context of medical discourse analysis.

scholarly journals Functioning of the author's terms of the social sciences in professional discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-141
Author(s):  
A. G. Anisimova ◽  
A. A. Kosarina ◽  
A. E. Fedotova
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Information Analysis ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Language For Specific Purposes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Given

Today studying author terms in different fields of knowledge remains a highly topical issue since they form the basis of every LSP (Language for Specific Purposes). Though many terminological issues have already been studied, the status of author's terms remains ambiguous as well as their functioning within the professional discourse, i.e. professional communication in a particular field of knowledge. Having chosen the terminology of social sciences as the material for the given research, the authors of the article single out author's terms within its framework and make an attempt to describe the main functions of author's terms in different contexts. The methods of the research include the following: information analysis and synthesis, contextual and contrastive analysis, comparative analysis of definitions. Theoretical significance of the article lies in the fact that it allows to get a better understanding of what the author's term is and to distinguish between the term and the author's term. The described functions of author's terms in professional discourse are a step forward towards studying general terminological issues. The research has revealed that author's terms perform three main functions: the nominative one, the emotive one and the expressing polemics with the author, who coined or popularized a particular term.

scholarly journals Functional approach to professional discourse exploration in linguistics. Edited by Elena N. Malyuga. Springer international publishing». 335 pp. ISBN 978-981-32-9102-7

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
T. A. Guralnik
Keyword(s):  
Functional Approach ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
International Publishing

Review of the monograph by a group of Russian researchers on multiple aspects of professional communication considered from the perspective of functional linguistics.

scholarly journals FUNCTIONAL-LINGUISTIC PARAMETERS OF ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Khramchenko
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Functional Differences ◽  
Business Discourse ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Functional Loading ◽  
Linguistic Means

This paper is devoted to basic functional-linguistic analysis of modern English professional and business discourse. The aim of this paper is to look at the phenomenon of modern English professional discourse from a functional-linguistic perspective to discuss key elements of verbal interaction that define rhetorical uniqueness of this type of communication and combine traditions, standards and conventional nature with enough freedom for speakers to express themselves and be creative in composing texts of their own. The author sums up different approaches to the definition of professional communication, singles out and describes major functional features of this type of verbal interaction: goal-setting, functional loading of professional communication, typical participants, chronotopos, forms of verbal behaviour, role and status relations, pragmatic conventions and standardization, etiquette, functional differences between official and semi-official professional discourse, peculiarities of written communication. All the above mentioned functional features of modern English professional discourse impose severe limitations on the speech arsenal available to people. Basic functionallinguistic analysis of discursive fragments reveals what aspects should be further elaborated on in terms of improving the process of strategic planning of speech, selecting proper linguistic means to cause appropriate pragmatic impact on listeners/ readers, work out ways to increase efficiency of rhetoric.

scholarly journals One-member sentences and their communicative potential in professional discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Л.Б. Крюкова ◽  
А.Н. Губайдуллина
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Functional Load ◽  
Military Discourse ◽  
Semantic Organization ◽  
Grammatical Structures ◽  
Unambiguous Interpretation

В статье рассматривается структурно-семантическая организация отдельных типов односоставных предложений в профессиональной коммуникации. Анализ функциональной нагрузки и коммуникативного потенциала исследуемых конструкций проводится с дискурсивных позиций. В качестве предмета лингвистического анализа выбраны строевые команды, представляющие собой односоставные и неполные грамматические структуры, реализация которых напрямую обусловлена стандартизованностью и субординативностью военной речи, однозначностью интерпретации и отсутствием вариативности. В фокусе внимания – инфинитивные и определенно-личные синтаксические единицы, ориентированные на вертикальную модель коммуникации. Отмечается четко выраженная жанровая обусловленность процессов интеръективации и вербализации. Демонстрируется, что императивный характер военного дискурса определяет семантику и коммуникативную направленность односоставных и неполных словесных конструкций. The article deals with the structural and semantic organization of certain types of one-member sentences in professional communication. The functional load and the communicative potential of the sentences are analyzed from a discursive standpoint. The object of linguistic analysis are drill commands, which are one-member and incomplete grammatical structures. The standardization and subordinality of military speech, unambiguous interpretation and lack of variability directly affect drill command verbalization forms. The focus is on infinitive and definite personal syntactic units oriented towards the vertical communication model. The interjectivation and verbalization processes are clearly caused by the genre. The article shows that the imperative nature of military discourse determines the semantics and communicative orientation of one-member and incomplete verbal constructions.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES OF TRANSLATING POLYSEMANTIC AND MULTIEQUIVALENT TERMS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF ECONOMIC PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
A. G. Anisimova ◽  
V. L. Malakhova ◽  
E. Abdulrahimov
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Correct Usage

The present work is devoted to the phenomenon of polysemy and to the issue of translation of English polysemantic termsin professional economic discourse. The paper presentsthe analysis of terms used in the economic and banking fields. The authors consider banking terminology as a system and show that systemic relations are important in organizing a special type of professional discourse. The objective of the research is to reveal the significance of correct and accurate rendering of terms for the effectiveness of intercultural professional communication. Particular attention in the paper is paid to the study of the meanings of economic terms listed in English and English-Russian terminological dictionaries. The authors conclude that the compilers of dictionaries often complicate the process of translation by including not only specific terminological meanings but also general language ones from different areas and fields. This causes “false polysemy”, hampers comprehension and the correct usage of terms. The methods of definitional and contextual analysis, interpretation, the method of comparison and opposition of concepts, and that of description have been made use of.

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