Text Type and Texture - Gail Forey

Text Type and Texture - Gail Forey

Projecting clauses: interpersonal realisation of control and power in workplace texts

Text Type and Texture - Gail Forey

Gail Forey [+-]
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Gail Forey is Associate Professor and Associate Director for The Research Centre for Profesional Communication in the Department of English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has co-edited Globalisation, Communication and the Workplace (Continuum, 2010).

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Forey explores workplace texts, focusing on one particular feature of interpersonal meaning construed by projecting clauses in initial position in a clause or clause complex. She discusses how the choice of Theme in workplace text is related to ‘control and power’ (Iedema 2003).

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Forey, Gail . Projecting clauses: interpersonal realisation of control and power in workplace texts. Text Type and Texture. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 151-174 Feb 2009. ISBN 9781845539122. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=29424. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.29424. Feb 2009

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