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Title: | Business English | Contributor(s): | Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca (author); Zhang, Zuocheng (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11822 | Abstract: | "Without research Business English foreign and second language learners will be hampered. With the growth of conferences and the increasing numbers of students studying Business English within MA courses, there will undoubtedly be much more research carried out and published" (St John 1996: 15). In the same year that Maggie Jo St John published the article from which this opening quotation is taken, Dudley-Evans and St John (1996) also compiled a report on Business English (BE) which again noted the limited research on the subject and the fact that such research had tended to concentrate on written communication while teaching focussed mostly on the spoken language. Moreover, they also identified two components of Business English, which they labeled "English for general business purposes" and "English for specific business purposes," respectively the contents of which depend on the linguistic competence of the learners and their business experience. They also noted how the "underlying business culture is that of Western Europe and the United States of America" (Dudley-Evans and St John 1998: v) which they considered inappropriate. This is arguably one of the consequences of the international acceptance of "management," an ideology that took shape in the United States and the United Kingdom, and which is effectively propagated through the capillary network of management schools, and training managerial elites worldwide according to standardized MBA programs (Mintzberg 2004). In this chapter, we hope to show how the notion of "Business English" has been adopted in local contexts to reflect often very different local circumstances, and we will take the cases of Japan and China to illustrate this point. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes, p. 193-211 | Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc | Place of Publication: | Chichester, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9780470655320 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200303 English as a Second Language 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470306 English as a second language 470401 Applied linguistics and educational linguistics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930302 Syllabus and Curriculum Development 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 160301 Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum 130201 Communication across languages and culture |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/165813208 | Series Name: | Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics | Editor: | Editor(s): Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield |
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