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Publication details [#32046]

Pogner, Karl-Heinz. 2003. Writing and interacting in the discourse community of engineering. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (6) : 855–867.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interaction | social interaction | text, production of | writing

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article sets out to picture writing as a social action in a discourse community, built up by the interactive work of its members. The analyzed texts are produced by a group of Danish consulting engineers, developing an energy concept for a German municipality.