Spanish at Work

1. Spanish at Work — Analysing the Discourse of Institutions
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

Part I. Languages, Identities and Media Institutions

2. Languages, Identities and Media Institutions in the Spanish-Speaking World
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

3. The Construction of Canarian Identity in the First Telenovela on Canarian Television
Ma Isabel González Cruz, Ma Jesús Vera-Cazorla

4. Linguistic Ideology in Galician Factual Radio Broadcasts: towards the Castilianisation of Galician Pronunciation Traits?
Jaine Beswick

5. A Gente é Latino: the Making of New Cultural Spaces in Brazilian Diaspora Television
Iris Bachmann

6. Tu voz es tu voto: the Role of Spanish in the 2008 United States Presidential Elections
Clare Mar-Molinero

Part II. Discourse, Persuasion and Performance in Political Institutions

7. Discourse, Persuasion and Performance in Political Institutions across the Spanish-Speaking World
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

8. A Critical Analysis of the Housing Policies Aimed at the Extremely Poor: the Case of the Social Development Secretariat of Buenos Aires City
Mariana Carolina Marchese

9. Contested Talk and the (Co-)Construction of Identity: Spanish Parliamentary Debate
Miranda Stewart

10. Political Implicature in Parliamentary Discourse: an Analysis of Mariano Rajoy’s Speech on the 2006 Catalan Statute of Autonomy
David Atkinson

11. Bolivarianism and Socialism: a Corpus-Driven Investigation into Changes in Hugo Chávez’s Rhetoric
Dominic Smith

Part III. Discourse, Interpersonal Relations and the Workplace

12. Discourse, Interpersonal Relations and the Workplace in the Spanish-Speaking World
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

13. Managing Intersubjectivity and Establishing Consensus in Two Activity Types: Business Negotiations and Student Workgroups
Lars Fant

14. Vaya, ¡qué chungo! Rapport-Building Talk in Service Encounters: the Case of Bars in Seville at Breakfast Time
María Elena Placencia, Ana Mancera Rueda

15. How to Get Rid of a Telemarketing Agent: Face-Work Strategies in an Intercultural Service Call
Rosina Márquez Reiter

16. Discourse as a Tool for the Diagnosis of Psychosis: a Linguistic and Psychiatric Study of Communication Decline
María Laura Pardo

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Media Studies, Office Management, Literature, general, Romance Languages, Semantics