FachsprachePub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2001
Henrik Rahm, Alexander Paulsson
{"title":"Corporate Elites on Stage","authors":"Henrik Rahm, Alexander Paulsson","doi":"10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2001","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by Austin’s work on the performativity of speech acts and Goffman’s notion of speaker positionings, this paper explores how annual general meetings are propelled by and interwoven with a corporate genre of professional communication. While observing more than thirty corporate annual general meetings for listed companies at Nasdaq Stockholm in Sweden over three years, we identified that the corporate elites populating the stages at these meetings act as meeting-professionals. Being meeting-professionals, the corporate elites have acquired knowledge of how to conduct a formal meeting by learning the genre, identifying which positions are available during a meeting and, based on these two pieces of knowledge, utter speech acts. Our concluding discussion points to the need for future studies of how corporate elites learn and use the genre of corporate communication to utter speech acts that ultimately form these kinds of formal meetings and perpetuate capitalist relations.","PeriodicalId":514542,"journal":{"name":"Fachsprache","volume":" 85","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140685244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FachsprachePub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2247
Tanja Wissik, Vesna Lušicky, Elena Chiocchetti
{"title":"Terminologiearbeit für das Gerichtsdolmetschen:","authors":"Tanja Wissik, Vesna Lušicky, Elena Chiocchetti","doi":"10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2247","url":null,"abstract":"Knowing and collecting specialised terminology is part of legal translators and interpreters (LITs) daily work and professional competences. It is also an important quality aspect. In 2021, about 100 Austrian LITs participated in a survey aimed at collecting data on their knowledge of basic terminology principles and standards as well as their attitudes towards terminology work. Results show that terminology work is generally done under time pressure, rarely employing state-of-the-art tools, often disregarding terminological principles and without considering advantages related to data maintenance and exchange. The answers collected suggest that many LITs would benefit from hands-on training on tools and methods for sound and adequate terminology work targeted specifically at their professional group and activities.","PeriodicalId":514542,"journal":{"name":"Fachsprache","volume":" 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140684549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FachsprachePub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2187
Karen Korning Zethsen, Lene Warner Thorup Boel, Matilde Nisbeth Brøgger
{"title":"Improving Layman Understanding of Forensic Evidence: Can the Language of Autopsy Reports and Personal Examination Reports be Made more Lay-friendly?","authors":"Karen Korning Zethsen, Lene Warner Thorup Boel, Matilde Nisbeth Brøgger","doi":"10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2187","url":null,"abstract":"In murder and attempted murder cases, the information provided by the autopsy report or personal examination report and the evidence given in court by forensic pathologists is often essential for the legal outcome. These reports written by forensic pathologists contain very specialised language; however, when used in connection with legal cases, the target audience also comprises non-experts in medicine such as the police, lawyers, judges, jury members and lay judges. Therefore, the reports must be comprehensible to this lay audience. This study investigates the language of 15 written autopsy reports and personal examination reports used in court with the aim of identifying potentially incomprehensible linguistic features or features which make the reports unnecessarily complex to laymen. Results show that many linguistic elements both at word, sentence and text level can be changed to more lay-friendly options without loss of precision. We discuss best practice recommendations as well as potential barriers to implementing these recommendations in practice.","PeriodicalId":514542,"journal":{"name":"Fachsprache","volume":" 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140683853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FachsprachePub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2244
M. Stoll, Michelle Bähr, Eva Becker, Martin Kerwer, Gesa Benz, Mark René Jonas, Anita Chasiotis
{"title":"User Feedback on Plain Language Summaries","authors":"M. Stoll, Michelle Bähr, Eva Becker, Martin Kerwer, Gesa Benz, Mark René Jonas, Anita Chasiotis","doi":"10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24989/fs.v46i1-2.2244","url":null,"abstract":"Plain Language Summaries (PLSs) describe scientific studies in a lay friendly way. This study investigates user feedback on PLSs based on a conceptual PLS framework. Our aim was to explore the users’ perspective on PLSs and to verify whether the topics named by users correspond to the categories of the conceptual framework. In an online study, we presented German PLSs of psychological studies to participants. They were asked for their feedback in three open questions. We received 2032 responses from 1098 participants, which were coded by two raters based on the conceptual framework. Participants had homogeneous views on some topics (e.g., the content of the PLSs). These results provide direct indications for users’ expectations towards PLSs. We observed diverging views on other topics (e.g., text length). These results indicate different needs among users. We conclude that a good fit between PLS and target group is important. The presentation of PLSs should allow users to choose information according to their needs. Finally, not all of the framework’s categories were mentioned by the participants. Implications of this finding are discussed.","PeriodicalId":514542,"journal":{"name":"Fachsprache","volume":" 28","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140685207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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