Abstracts Archive

This symposium aims to expand the use of a literary analysis technique-namely, speech act theory-to the examination of business writing and of the language of business as it has been used over time in order to "normalize" segregationist behavior.  This transdisciplinary move enables historical ...

I provide a thematic analysis of stakeholder discourse, namely Catholics concerning the use of the vernacular for worship on the social media platform Reddit.com. For centuries, a mutual suspicion has existed between the Catholic Church and the forces of modernity. Yet with Vatican II (1962-1965), t...

This paper aims to shed light on inequality, power relations and restrictions among users of Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) to explore a more realistic picture of BELF in the diverse workplace worldwide. While BELF research has accumulated valuable insights into how businesspeople commun...