Recent research trends on business discourse: European perspectives

摘要

The research field of business discourse has witnessed rapid developments since the early linguistic analysis of business negotiations (Lampi 1986) and business meetings (William 1988) in the late 1980s. Over the years, with the increased literature on business communication and business discourse studies, the original and narrow view of occupation-oriented and pedagogy-centered research agendas and approaches have been greatly enlarged. Currently, business discourse 'is opening up to real life business, professional, and organizational interaction, both within and across "cultural" contexts' (Bargiela-Chiappini and Zhang 2013, 205).