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Acknowledgements
SECTION 1£º INTRODUCTION
1£® Introducing the topic and the book
1£®1 Why is it important to analyse professional discourse?
1£®2 What is professional discourse?
1£®3 What distinguishes professional discourse from
other types of discourse?
1£®4 What is the purpose of the book?
1£®5 How is the book organized?
2£® A theoretical model for contextual analysis of professional discourse
2£®1 The construction of professional discourse
2£®2 The contextual dependence of professional discourse
2£®3 Model for the contextual reconstruction of
professional discourse
2£®4 Conclusions
3£® Methodology to explore the dynamic relationship between
text and context
3£®1 Cognitive analysis
3£®2 Pragmatic analysis
3£®3 Macrothematic analysis
3£®4 Conclusions

SECTION 2£º SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE
4£® The socio-historical construction of medical discourse
4£®1 A constructivist approach to medical discourse
4£®2 Excerpts from medical articles from different periods
4£®3 Stages in the development of medical science
4£®4 Scientificality in medical articles from 1730 to 1985
4£®5 The relationship between text and context for
scientific medical writing
4£®6 Conclusions
5£® Non-verbal representation in articles within technology£¬
medicine and economics
5£®1 Theoretical background
5£®2 Non-verbal representation in scientific articles
5£®3 Discussion
5£®4 Conclusions
6£® From a national to an international writing community£º
The case of economics in Sweden
6£®1 The Swedish economics community over three centuries
6£®2 The change from a journal in Swedish to a journal in English
6£®3 Homogenization of article patterns
6£®4 Discussion
6£®5 Conclusions

SECTION 3£º LEGISLATIVE DISCOURSE
7£® The functional comprehensibility of legislative texts
7£®1 Comprehension and comprehensibility
7£®2 Pilot studies
7£®3 Pragmatic analysis of legislative texts
7£®4 Law-texts for different functioffs
7£®5 Schema for function-centred analysis of laws
7£®6 The alternative law-text
7£®7 Test on functional comprehensibility
7£®8 Discussion
7£®9 Conclusions
8£® The legislative writing process
8£®1 Introduction
8£®2 Societal constraints on lawmaking
8£®3 The case of Swedish lawmaking
8£®4 The legal writing process
8£®5 The process and its product
8£®6 Conclusions

SECTION 4£º WORKPLACE DISCOURSE
9£® Communication at work£º A sociolinguistic perspective on
workplace discourse
9£®1 A sociolinguistic framework
9£®2 Communication in a local government office
9£®3 Conclusions
10£® The multilingual workplace£º Discourse in a hospital and
a large company
10£®1 Theoretical approaches
10£®2 Presentation of the research project
10£®3 The organizational structure of text and talk at work
10£®4 Workplace languages
10£®5 Foreign language users at work
10£®6 Workplace interaction from a diversity perspective
10£®7 Conclusions

SECTION 5£º DISCOURSE IN LARGE
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
11£® The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse£º
The case of banks and structural engineering firms
11£®1 The sociolinguistic order of communication in
a close-knit working group
11£®2 A model of communication in large enterprises
11£®3 Presentation of the research project
11£®4 Discourse in European banks and
structural engineering companies
11£®5 The construction of an 'organizational self'£º
The case of European banks
11£®6 Conclusions
12£® Business discourse in the globalized economy£º
A diversity perspective on company websites
12£®1 The construction of an 'organizational self' on the internet
12£®2 The balance between local and global concerns
12£®3 The balance between economic concerns and
social/societal values
12£®4 Discussion
12£®5 Conclusions

SECTION 6£º CONCLUSIONS
13£® Professional discourse in the twenty-first century
13£®1 Professional discourse in different domains
13£®2 Large organizations in the twenty-first century
13£®3 The multilingual workplace
13£®4 Workplace discourse in the 'new work order'
13£®5 Topics for future research
13£®6 Conclusions
References
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