The Handbook of Business Discourse is the most comprehensive overview of the field to date. It offers an accessible and authoritative introduction to a range of historical, disciplinary, methodological and cultural perspectives on business discourse and addresses many of the pressing issues facing a growing, varied and increasingly international field of research. The collection also illustrates some of the challenges of defining and delimiting a relatively recent and eclectic field of studies, including debates on the very definition of 'business discourse'.Part One includes chapters on the origins, advances and features of business discourse in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. Part Two covers methodological approaches such as mediated communication, corpus linguistics, organisational discourse, multimodality, race and management communication, and rhetorical analysis. Part Three moves on to look at disciplinary perspectives such as sociology, pragmatics, gender studies, intercultural communication, linguistic anthropology and business communication. Part Four looks at cultural perspectives across a range of geographical areas including Spain, Brazil, Japan, Korea, China and Vietnam. The concluding section reflects on future developments in Europe, North America and Asia.
Key Features:
*Consists of newly commissioned chapters, authored by a vibrant group of internationally-known experts and emerging younger scholars, representing more than twenty countries.
* Individual chapters aim to offer breadth, depth and, where appropriate, illustrative analytical examples, and can be read as self-contained, mini-introductions to each topic.
*A valuable resource for students, researchers, teachers and trainers looking for a research-based, wide-ranging introduction to business discourse in a single volume.
Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University.

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Editorial Advisory Board; Notes on Contributors; Reviewers; Introduction: Business discourse, F. Bargiela-Chiappini; Part One: Foundation and Context; Introduction; 1: Europe: the state of the field, C. Nickerson and B. Planken; 2: New Zealand and Australia: the state of the field, T. Zorn and M. Simpson; 3: North America: the state of the field, D. C. Andrews; 4: Discourse, communication and organisational ontology, B. Brummans, F. Cooren and M. Chaput; Part Two: Approaches and methodologies; Introduction; 5: Rhetorical analysis, M. Zachry; 6: Organisational discourse analysis, R. Iedema and H. Scheeres; 7: Ethnomethodology, D. Samra-Fredericks; 8: Corpus linguistics, T. Berber Sardinha and L. Barbara; 9: Critical studies, S. Deetz and J. G. McClellan; 10: Mediated communication, J. Gimenez; 11: Negotiation studies, A-M Bülow; 12: Multimodal analysis, G. Garzone; 13: Politeness studies, R. Márquez-Reiter; 14: BELF: Business English as a Lingua Franca, M. Gerritsen and C. Nickerson; Part Three: Disciplinary Perspectives; Introduction; 15: Linguistic anthropology, C. Wasson; 16: Gender studies, L. Mullany; 17: Sociology, narrative and discourse, T. Watson; 18: Pragmatics, K. C. C. Kong; 19: Organisational communication, A. M. Schmisseur, J. Jian and G. T. Fairhurst; 20: International management, R. Piekkari; 21: Management communication, L. Reinsch; 22: Race and management communication, P. S. Parker and D. S. Grimes; 23: Business communication, L. Louhiala-Salminen; 24: Intercultural Communication, I. Pillier; Part Four: Localised Perspectives; Introduction; 25: Japan, H. Tanaka; 26: China, Y. Zhu and L. Li; 27: Korea, Y. Jung; 28: Vietnam, G. Chew; 29: Malaysia, S. Nair-Venugopal; 30: Brazil, L. Pacheco de Oliveira; 31: Spain, E. Montolío and F. Ramallo; 32: Francophone research, L. Filliettaz and de Saint-Georges; 33: Kazakhstan, E. Suleimenova and G. G. Burkitbayeva; Conclusions; 34: Future horizons: Europe, M. Charles; 35: Future horizons: North America, R. Dulek and M. Graham; 36: Future horizons: Asia, W. Cheng.