Asian Business Discourse(s)

The Editors: Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University, has been working on business discourse since 1990. Her research has covered, among others, intercultural pragmatics, management discourse and organisational communication in joint ventures. Her publications include Managing Language: the Discourse of Corporate Meetings, The Languages of Business: An International Perspective (both with Sandra Harris) and Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses (with Catherine Nickerson). Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergamo. He is currently President of the Italian Association of University Language Centres and Director of CERLIS, the research centre on specialized languages based at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialized discourse (I linguaggi specialistici, Robert Boyle and the Language of Science, Specialized Discourse: Linguistic Features and Changing Conventions).