Acknowledgements
SECTION 1�� INTRODUCTION
1�� Introducing the topic and the book
1��1 Why is it important to analyse professional discourse?
1��2 What is professional discourse?
1��3 What distinguishes professional discourse from
other types of discourse?
1��4 What is the purpose of the book?
1��5 How is the book organized?
2�� A theoretical model for contextual analysis of professional discourse
2��1 The construction of professional discourse
2��2 The contextual dependence of professional discourse
2��3 Model for the contextual reconstruction of
professional discourse
2��4 Conclusions
3�� Methodology to explore the dynamic relationship between
text and context
3��1 Cognitive analysis
3��2 Pragmatic analysis
3��3 Macrothematic analysis
3��4 Conclusions

SECTION 2�� SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE
4�� The socio-historical construction of medical discourse
4��1 A constructivist approach to medical discourse
4��2 Excerpts from medical articles from different periods
4��3 Stages in the development of medical science
4��4 Scientificality in medical articles from 1730 to 1985
4��5 The relationship between text and context for
scientific medical writing
4��6 Conclusions
5�� Non-verbal representation in articles within technology��
medicine and economics
5��1 Theoretical background
5��2 Non-verbal representation in scientific articles
5��3 Discussion
5��4 Conclusions
6�� From a national to an international writing community��
The case of economics in Sweden
6��1 The Swedish economics community over three centuries
6��2 The change from a journal in Swedish to a journal in English
6��3 Homogenization of article patterns
6��4 Discussion
6��5 Conclusions

SECTION 3�� LEGISLATIVE DISCOURSE
7�� The functional comprehensibility of legislative texts
7��1 Comprehension and comprehensibility
7��2 Pilot studies
7��3 Pragmatic analysis of legislative texts
7��4 Law-texts for different functioffs
7��5 Schema for function-centred analysis of laws
7��6 The alternative law-text
7��7 Test on functional comprehensibility
7��8 Discussion
7��9 Conclusions
8�� The legislative writing process
8��1 Introduction
8��2 Societal constraints on lawmaking
8��3 The case of Swedish lawmaking
8��4 The legal writing process
8��5 The process and its product
8��6 Conclusions

SECTION 4�� WORKPLACE DISCOURSE
9�� Communication at work�� A sociolinguistic perspective on
workplace discourse
9��1 A sociolinguistic framework
9��2 Communication in a local government office
9��3 Conclusions
10�� The multilingual workplace�� Discourse in a hospital and
a large company
10��1 Theoretical approaches
10��2 Presentation of the research project
10��3 The organizational structure of text and talk at work
10��4 Workplace languages
10��5 Foreign language users at work
10��6 Workplace interaction from a diversity perspective
10��7 Conclusions

SECTION 5�� DISCOURSE IN LARGE
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
11�� The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse��
The case of banks and structural engineering firms
11��1 The sociolinguistic order of communication in
a close-knit working group
11��2 A model of communication in large enterprises
11��3 Presentation of the research project
11��4 Discourse in European banks and
structural engineering companies
11��5 The construction of an 'organizational self'��
The case of European banks
11��6 Conclusions
12�� Business discourse in the globalized economy��
A diversity perspective on company websites
12��1 The construction of an 'organizational self' on the internet
12��2 The balance between local and global concerns
12��3 The balance between economic concerns and
social/societal values
12��4 Discussion
12��5 Conclusions

SECTION 6�� CONCLUSIONS
13�� Professional discourse in the twenty-first century
13��1 Professional discourse in different domains
13��2 Large organizations in the twenty-first century
13��3 The multilingual workplace
13��4 Workplace discourse in the 'new work order'
13��5 Topics for future research
13��6 Conclusions
References
Index