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).
Description
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).