Given the focal role that group and team meetings play in shaping employees' work lives
(and schedules), the scarcity of conceptual and empirical attention to the topic in extant …

Packed with contemporary examples from the business world, this is an exciting and
engaging text which explains how language works in business, how to analyse it and how to …

This paper investigates the accomplishment of highlighting in multiparty video-mediated
learning activities. The focus is on moments of screen sharing and the verbal, embodied …

The study examines the use of material objects constituting material-bodily actions in
explanation sequences in construction-site interactions. Using multimodal Conversation …

Traditionally, medical experts are key actors in the socialization of future doctors. In this
paper, we focus on how medical teachers and residents enact for the teachers the …

In this article, we draw on audio-recordings of authentic job interviews to explore the various
ways in which candidates use humour to establish, confirm or claim co-membership with the …

This chapter investigates the role of idiosyncratic multi-word expressions (MWEs) in adult
second-language (L2) learning in the wild. MWEs are typically argued to be the source of …

Näin kirjoittaa eräs opiskelija väitöstutkimukseni verkkokeskustelussa, popularisoin tiin
keskittyvässä keskusteluharjoituksessa, joka on kuulunut kauppatieteilijöiden suo men …

Financial communication is a form of organizational communication that links strategic and
managerial views on the firm with the surveilling gaze of investors and the financial market …

This paper examines how the shift to knowledge and innovation economy has created new
sites for the commodification of language and communication in the context of …