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Spanish at Work

Analysing Institutional Discourse across the Spanish-Speaking World

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  • © 2011

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  1. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

    1. Swansea University, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Spanish at Work — Analysing the Discourse of Institutions

    1. Spanish at Work — Analysing the Discourse of Institutions

      • Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
      Pages 1-8

  4. Discourse, Persuasion and Performance in Political Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Discourse, Persuasion and Performance in Political Institutions across the Spanish-Speaking World

      • Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
      Pages 85-92

    3. A Critical Analysis of the Housing Policies Aimed at the Extremely Poor: the Case of the Social Development Secretariat of Buenos Aires City

      • Mariana Carolina Marchese
      Pages 93-110

    4. Contested Talk and the (Co-)Construction of Identity: Spanish Parliamentary Debate

      • Miranda Stewart
      Pages 111-129

    5. Political Implicature in Parliamentary Discourse: an Analysis of Mariano Rajoy’s Speech on the 2006 Catalan Statute of Autonomy

      • David Atkinson
      Pages 130-145

    6. Bolivarianism and Socialism: a Corpus-Driven Investigation into Changes in Hugo Chávez’s Rhetoric

      • Dominic Smith
      Pages 146-162

  5. Discourse, Interpersonal Relations and the Workplace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Discourse, Interpersonal Relations and the Workplace in the Spanish-Speaking World

      • Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
      Pages 165-171

    3. Managing Intersubjectivity and Establishing Consensus in Two Activity Types: Business Negotiations and Student Workgroups

      • Lars Fant
      Pages 172-191

    4. Vaya, ¡qué chungo! Rapport-Building Talk in Service Encounters: the Case of Bars in Seville at Breakfast Time

      • María Elena Placencia, Ana Mancera Rueda
      Pages 192-207

    5. How to Get Rid of a Telemarketing Agent: Face-Work Strategies in an Intercultural Service Call

      • Rosina Márquez Reiter
      Pages 208-226

    6. Discourse as a Tool for the Diagnosis of Psychosis: a Linguistic and Psychiatric Study of Communication Decline

      • María Laura Pardo
      Pages 227-251
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About this book

A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses on how language is used in the media, politics and the workplace; what discursive identities are constructed; and how interpersonal relations are negotiated.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Swansea University, UK

    Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

About the editor

DAVID ATKINSON is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland IRIS BACHMANN is Lecturer in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK JAINE BESWICK is Programme Leader for Portuguese Studies at the University of Southampton, UK, and Lecturer in Linguistics with specialisations in Spanish, Galician and Portuguese LARS FANT is Professor of Ibero-Romance languages at Stockholm University, Sweden MARÍA-ISABEL GONZÁLEZ-CRUZ is Senior Lecturer in Grammar and Pragmatics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ANA MANCERA RUEDA is Lecturer in the Spanish Language Department at the University of Sevilla, Spain MARIANA CAROLINA MARCHESE Lectures at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina CLARE MAR-MOLINERO is Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics and Head of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, UK ROSINA MÁRQUEZ REITER is Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey, UK MARÍA LAURA PARDO is Professor of Media Discourse Analysis at the University of Buenos Aires and Researcher at the Argentinean CONICET, Argentina MARÍA ELENA PLACENCIA is Reader in Spanish Linguistics at Birkbeck University of London, UK DOMINIC SMITH Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Birmingham, UK is investigating Hugo Chávez's discourse MIRANDA STEWART is currently working for the Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece MARÍA-JESÚS VERA-CAZORLA is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

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