This volume features representative studies focusing on the evolution of text genres in corporate and professional communication. Genre change is explored in various contexts in light of the increasing importance of new media and the profound social changes that have occurred in the last few decades. Major theoretical issues are raised and discussed, highlighting the need to reconsider the repertoire of conventions traditionally identified in each specific genre, and to reassess and update the analytical tools used to investigate them, about three decades after the emergence of genre...

Gathering wide-ranging empirical research, this book goes behind the scenes of organizations in business, politics, law, media, education and sports to unravel stereotypes of discursive leadership practices as they unfold. The discussion of case studies moves beyond who is a leader and what leaders do, to how leadership stereotypes are challenged.

This tightly organized collection locates the essence of European parliamentarism in four key aspects-deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty.