The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics)

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication provides a broad coverage of the key areas where language and professional communication intersect and gives a comprehensive account of the field.

The four main sections of the Handbook cover:

• Approaches to Professional Communication
• Practice
• Acquisition of Professional Competence
• Views from the Professions

This invaluable reference book incorporates not only an historical view of the field, but also looks to possible future developments. Contributions from international scholars and practitioners, focusing on specific issues, explore the major approaches to professional communication and bring into focus recent research.

This is the first handbook of language and professional communication to account for both pedagogic and practitioner perspectives and as such is an essential reference for postgraduate students and those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and professional communication.

Vijay Bhatia is an Adjunct Professor in Macquarie University and University of Malaya. He is author of  Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings (1993) and Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-based View (2004).

Stephen Bremner is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests are workplace writing, and the ways in which students make the transition from the academy to the workplace.