Occupation
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- Created on: 11-04-16 20:18
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- Occupation
- Inter-Organisational Communication
- Communication that takes place between different organisations
- Intra-Organisational Communication
- Communication that takes place within an organisation
- External Communication
- Communicaton from an institution to an external group e.g consumers
- Jargon: Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand
- Jargon is usually referred to as "technical speak" with the words based in reality, whereas slang is more often than not 'made up' terms used within social groups
- It is inclusive to those in the workplace
- It is the use of their own language e.g doctors
- It is inclusive to those in the workplace
- Jargon is usually referred to as "technical speak" with the words based in reality, whereas slang is more often than not 'made up' terms used within social groups
- DREW AND HERITAGE 1992
- In Talk at Work - identified some key differences between everyday conversation and workplace.
- 1. Goal Orientation: Participants in the workplace usually focus on specific tasks or goals
- 2. Turn taking rules/restrictions: In some professional contexts, there are special turn-taking rules in operation. Even when no words exist, may be unwritten restrictions on who speaks when e.g doctor asks the questions to the patient.
- 3. Allowable Contributions: May be restrictions on what kind of contributions are considered "allowable."
- 4. Profressional Lexis: profesional workplace context may be reflected in the lexical choice, used by the speakers
- 5. Structured interactions
- 6. Asymmetry: often, one speaker has more power/special knowledge than the other, eg. boss and employee.
- 5. Structured interactions
- 4. Profressional Lexis: profesional workplace context may be reflected in the lexical choice, used by the speakers
- 3. Allowable Contributions: May be restrictions on what kind of contributions are considered "allowable."
- 2. Turn taking rules/restrictions: In some professional contexts, there are special turn-taking rules in operation. Even when no words exist, may be unwritten restrictions on who speaks when e.g doctor asks the questions to the patient.
- 1. Goal Orientation: Participants in the workplace usually focus on specific tasks or goals
- In Talk at Work - identified some key differences between everyday conversation and workplace.
- Speech Community: Is a term in sociolinguistics for a group of people who use the same variety of a language who share specific rules for speaking and interpreting speech.
- The Study of Language, George Yule 2014
- "speech is a form of social identity and is used, consciously or unconsciously, to indicate membership or different social groups or speech communities."
- The Study of Language, George Yule 2014
- Inter-Organisational Communication
- Exclusive to those not in the workplace
- Those unaware of the language may feel inferior/less intelligent
- Jargon is usually referred to as "technical speak" with the words based in reality, whereas slang is more often than not 'made up' terms used within social groups
- It is inclusive to those in the workplace
- It is the use of their own language e.g doctors
- It is inclusive to those in the workplace
- JOHN SWALES 1990
- Defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals."
- Discourse community: A group of people who share certain language-using practices.
- HEWINGS +HEWINGS 2005
- Martin Hewings defined it as "groups of people who share particular registers and use the kinds of texts in which registers occur"
- HEWINGS +HEWINGS 2005
- Discourse community: A group of people who share certain language-using practices.
- Defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals."
- Zdenek Salzmann - Language, Culture and Society 2004
- To belong to a speech communitym you have to share enough characterisitcs of pronounciationm grammar, vocabulary, and manner of speaking.
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