Janet Bowker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Janet Bowker is involved.

Articles

Bowker, Janet 2013 3. Variation across spoken and written registers in internal corporate communication: Multimodality and blending in evolving genres Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Bamford, Julia, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani (eds.), pp. 47–64 | Article

Rapid developments in technology, together with dependence on electronically-mediated communication, are providing international business with new opportunities and challenges. This paper focuses on the attempts of a multinational corporation to achieve the goals of internal “employer branding”… read more

Bowker, Janet 2011 The Language of Numerical Data and Figures in Internal Company Communications: The Processes of Subjectivization and Relevance-Making Language for Specific Purposes, De Rycker, Antoon, Kris Buyse and Lieve Vangehuchten (eds.), pp. 20–35 | Article

This paper looks at the language used to talk about numerical data and figures as part of in-house, computer-mediated audio-conferencing between managers and their staff in corporate settings. The data consist of a sub-corpus of oral presentations taken from a much larger self-compiled… read more