The Construction of Professional Discourse

Speech, writing and performativity - an evolutionary view of the history of constitutive ritual, Brenda Danet performatives constituting value - the case of patents, Charles Bazerman contracts as social action, Anna Trosborg a scientific community and its texts - a historical discourse study, Ellen Valle on the sociohistorical construction of scientific discourse, Britt-Louise Gunnarsson parameters of institutional discourse, Jan Anward evaluation as linguistic structure and social practice, Charlotte Linde critical discourse analysis and the study of doctor-patient interaction, Ruth Wodak intertextuality and interdiscursivity in the discourse of alternative dispute resolution, Christopher N. Candlin and Yon Maley the interactional construction of narratives in medical and life history interviews, Elliot G. Mischler the institutional narrative as drama, Lars-Christer Hyden moral construction in social work discourse, Christopher Hall et al contested vision - the discursive constitution of Rodney King, Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin.