Playing the Corporate Language Game

Download or read book Playing the Corporate Language Game written by Catherine Nickerson and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between context and text and presents a comprehensive framework for the investigation of the communication practices that are currently in use in international business. It includes and extensive survey of multinational corporations in the Netherlands, and it goes on to present a detailed analysis of the genres and discourse strategies that could be identified in a large corpus of authentic documents written by Dutch and British writers, consisting of letter, reports and e-mails messages.