The Popularisation of Business and Economic English in Online Newspapers

Product Description
This book investigates the evolution of economic discourse from fully specialised texts towards popularisation. Popularising texts on economics and business-related matters has hitherto been a neglected and under-explored area of enquiry, and yet it deserves attention and study on account of the new fascinating insights it offers into specialised language and discourse. The present book explores this under-researched area via the qualitative analysis of a modern genre, namely newspapers on the web. In particular, it scrutinises authentic extracts principally drawn from The Guardian Online in order to show, on the one hand, the popularising effect of the Internet on business and economic discourse, and, on the other hand, the realistic vocabulary currently used in economic and professional jargon.
About the Author
Elisa Mattiello holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Pisa, where she currently teaches courses on English Linguistics and ESP for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her main research fields focus on extra-grammatical morphology and varieties. In these fields, she has published two monographs: Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena (Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2013) and An Introduction to English Slang: A Description of its Morphology, Semantics and Sociology (Monza, Polimetrica, 2008), in addition to various articles which have appeared in national and international journals and volumes. Recently, her research has expanded in the direction of specialised discourse, with the publication of articles on political, legal, and scientific discourse.