The focus of the conference is business discourse as a data driven multimethod approach for understanding how people and organizations communicate strategically in an increasingly global business environment.
Business discourse views language as contextually situated social action constructed by its social actors and aims to understand how people communicate strategically in an organizational context. Business discourse research employs a variety of methods ranging from conversation analysis, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, genre analysis and intersects humanities and social sciences through its focus on language at work.
Conference topics include but are not limited to: - Workplace communication - Leadership communication - Corporate social responsibility - Multicultural communication.
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