This text explores tourism websites as mediums of identity construction and promotion. As interactive modes of communication, tourism websites for nations, cities, and attractions function critically in the new capitalism as calls for social action in contributing to economic and social rebirth,...

Workplace Discourse provides an overview of the rapidly developing field of spoken and written workplace interaction, taking a fresh perspective on research methods and key issues in the field.. It examines discourse in a wide variety of workplace contexts using both genre analysis and a...

Frontmatter -- Dedications -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Identity and the World Wide Web: Methods of Analysis -- 3. Narrative of the Nation: Baltic Tourism Websites in the Post-Soviet Context -- 4. The Tourist as Pilgrim, the Pilgrim as Tourist: Santiago de...

We introduce a semantic network approach to the study of organizational identity construction based on the analysis of discourse. We argue that discourse plays a central role in shaping organizational legitimacy through which identities are constructed. Organizational identity is frequently...

Discourse plays an important role in medicine, and medical discourse in the broadest sense (discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies) has profound anthropological significance. As modes of social action, writing and speaking...