The Language of Business Meetings

這本劃世紀創新出版，根據獨一無二的劍橋／諾丁漢商業語料庫（CANBEC），呈現商業會議參與者所使用語言的深度研究。CANBEC 收錄不同型態內外部商業會議中不同國籍、母語、不同分責角色的語料。從大量情境／關係的語料中，由關鍵字、詞組例句和言談分析提供不同面向詳細觀點，如會議結構性階段、會議參與者話語操作、人際關係語言及創意、權力及侷限等，是所有討論真實商業會議情形研究中最具代表之作。本書作者乃東京大學英語系副教授，是 CANBEC 主要架構者，也是將語料庫資料實際運用在教學的專家，總結提出使用研究結果進行商業英語教學的實務性建議。

This innovative volume presents an in-depth study of the language used by participants in business meetings. The cutting-edge research draws on the Cambridge and Nottingham Business English Corpus (CANBEC), a unique resource which brings together meetings of different types both within and between companies, involving speakers whose roles and responsibilities vary, and who represent a range of nationalities and first languages. Keywords, concordance lines and discourse analysis provide thorough insights into aspects such as the structural stages of meetings, participants' discursive practices, interpersonal language and creativity, and power and constraint. The author concludes by making practical suggestions for using these findings to inform the teaching of business English.