Language of Business Studies Lectures : A corpus-assisted analysis

The Language of Business Studies Lectures -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- List of tables and figures -- chapter 1 -- Introduction -- 1.1 Rationale for the study -- 1.2 The university lecture: pros and cons -- 1.3 Aims of the study -- 1.4 Target readership -- 1.5 Overview of the book -- chapter 2 -- Background to the study -- The merger of discourses -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Spoken discourse -- 2.2.1 The linguistic/discursive approach -- 2.2.2 The interactional approach -- 2.3 Academic discourse -- 2.4 Disciplinary discourse: the field of economics -- 2.5 Professional discourse: the world of business -- 2.6 A conceptual framework for analyzing business studies lectures -- chapter 3 -- The business studies lecture corpus -- Design, collection and analysis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Corpus design -- 3.3 Collecting the data -- 3.4 Transcribing the data -- 3.5 Methodology: an integrated approach -- 3.5.1 Quantitative and qualitative analysis -- 3.5.2 Comparative analysis -- 3.5.3 Behavioural observation -- 3.5.4 Participant feedback -- chapter 4 -- Speaking to the audience -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Speech rate -- 4.3 Lecture style -- 4.3.1 Discourse dysfluencies -- 4.3.2 Reduced forms -- 4.4 Lexical informality -- 4.4.1 Vagueness -- 4.4.2 Idioms -- 4.5 Syntactic informality -- 4.5.1 Ellipsis -- 4.5.2 Non-restrictive which-clauses -- 4.6 Lexical density -- 4.7 Summary of findings -- chapter 5 -- Interacting with the learners -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Discourse structuring -- 5.2.1 Lecture macrostructure -- 5.2.2 Macromarkers -- 5.2.3 Micromarkers -- 5.3 Evaluation -- 5.3.1 Relevance markers -- 5.3.2 Affect markers -- 5.4 Lecturer-audience interaction -- 5.4.1 Questions -- 5.4.2 Comprehension checks -- 5.4.3 Dialogic episodes.