Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Chapter 1. Networking engagement in professional practices 1
6. Section I. Monomodal genres
7. Chapter 2. Positioning and proximity of reader engagement 29
8. Chapter 3. Authorial engagement in business emails 47
9. Chapter 4. Challenging the concept of pure objectivity in British and Spanish hard news reports 67
10. Chapter 5. Rebuilding trust in the banking sector 87
11. Chapter 6. Interrogative engagement as a pragmatic and textual function in Legal Studies 101
12. Chapter 7. Patients engaging their doctors in the doctor-patient relationship 119
13. Chapter 8. “Let’s have that conversation on next quarter’s call” 137
14. Section II. Intersemiotic genres
15. Chapter 9. Multiplying engagement 157
16. Chapter 10. Researchers’ move from page to screen 179
17. Chapter 11. Recruitment websites and the socialization of new employees 197
18. Chapter 12. Verbal and nonverbal engagement devices in business persuasive discourse 217
19. Chapter 13. Scifotainment 243
20. Chapter 14. How much do U.S. patents disclose? 259
21. Chapter 15. Gestural silence 277
22. Chapter 16. Silence and engagement in the multimodal genre of synchronous videoconferencing lectures 297
23. Chapter 17. Organizational metadiscourse across lecturing styles 321
24. Chapter 18. Engagement of readers/customers in the discourse of e-tourism promotional genres 341
25. Notes on contributors 359
26. Names Index 365
27. Subject Index 367