Orts, María Ángeles, Ruth Breeze & Maurizio Gotti (Eds.), Power, Persuasion and Manipulation in Specialised Genres.

Abstract

With Power, Persuasion and Manipulation in Specialised Genres, Maria Angeles Orts, Ruth Breeze and Maurizio Gotti propose another insight into professional communication, following Bhatia and Bremner (2014). Although the latter focused on corporate discourse, the former favour a more global perspective on “the language of professions” (p. 9) and how they use persuasion and manipulation in various genres. The 368-page book is divided into two sections: the six chapters in the first section foc...