This book presents research in business discourse and offers pedagogical approaches to teaching
business discourse in both classroom and consultancy contexts that address the key issues of
dealing with different types of learners developing teaching materials and evaluation. Drawing
on the authors' extensive experience of researching business discourse from a variety of
different perspectives including pragmatics discourse analysis rhetoric and language for
specific purposes it demonstrates how these approaches may be applied to teaching. Each
chapter includes a list of additional readings together with a number of practical tasks
designed to help readers apply the materials presented. Case studies are used throughout the
book to illustrate the concepts thus equipping readers with a set of research tools to extend
their own understanding of how language and communication operate in business contexts as well
introducing them to a variety of research-based ideas that can be translated easily into a
classroom setting. The book is cross-cultural in scope as it includes perspectives from a range
of different contexts. It represents a significant advance in current literature and will
provide a valuable resource for students and scholars of applied linguistics business
communication and business discourse in addition to teachers of Business English.
