Displaying Competence in Organizations

1. Discourse Perspectives on Competence in Organizations
Katja Pelsmaekers, Craig Rollo, Tom Hout, Priscilla Heynderickx

2. ‘Taking Ownership’: Language and Ethnicity in the Job Interview
Celia Roberts

3. Equality for Those Who Are Competent. Discourses on Competencies, Diversity and Equality in the Public Sector
Sarah Scheepers

4. The Language of Power: an Analysis of a Corpus of CEO Letters
Berna Hendriks, Margot Mulken

5. The Successful 2008 Presidential Candidate: How Political Weblogs Have Contributed in Shaping the American Electorate’s Preferences
Giorgia Riboni

6. The Representation of Competence in Newspaper Interviews: a Linguistic–Pragmatic Discourse Analysis of the (Self-) Representation of Journalists and Politicians in Written Interviews
Martina Temmerman

7. Competence on Display: Crafting Stories during Newsroom Editorial Conferences
Tom Hout, Ellen Praet

8. Interpreting Competence: Nursing Staff and Family Members as Ad Hoc Interpreters in Hospitals
Birte Pawlack

9. The Discursive Construal of Purpose by Means of Competence in German and English Corporate Mission Statements
Birgitta Meex, Heidi Verplaetse

10. ‘Adam Smith for Diocesan Missioner’: Legitimation in Religious Discourse
Gerlinde Mautner

Keywords: Business and Management, Corporate Communication/Public Relations, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis