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This book is an essential read for any professional dealing with data and information challenges.The author presents a new, unique approach to broad industry issues, leveraging applied linguistics and discusses how to break barriers that exist between language and data; the aim to make it easier for the financial industry (including regulators) to communicate - for the benefit of all investors. Unconventional in the cross-disciplinary pairing of applied linguistics and financial services, it is practical and intuitive in pursuing solutions. While focused on financial services, the approach is relevant for other industries that have similar challenges.

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This book examines the social organizational discourse of task-oriented business meetings in a Kuwaiti financial organization and an American non-profit trade organisation. Focusing primarily on the linguistic behaviours demonstrating agency and power of managers and staff members displayed during these meetings, the project is based on ethnographic data collected during eight months of fieldwork. The author examines the similarities and differences between the linguistic behaviours of both organizations, particularly relating to the production of collective "we," "us," and "our" utterances and directive speech acts issued to explore how managers and co-workers perform agency and power in meetings. This distinctive book will shed light into the influence of language on the actions and relationships of managers and co-workers in business meetings, and will be of interest to applied linguists and discourse analysts in the field of business discourse in addition to business professionalsin management and finance.

Pragmatics --- Sociolinguistics --- Applied linguistics. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Linguistics --- Communication in organizations. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Research Methods in Language and Linguistics. --- Corporate Communication. --- Methodology.

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This edited book engages with the richly interdisciplinary field of business and professional communication, aiming to reconcile the prescriptive ambitions of the US-centred business communication tradition with the more descriptive approach favoured in discourse studies and applied linguistics. A follow-up to the award-winning book The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), this volume brings together scholars and their recent work from wide-ranging business and professional settings to engage with the question of what counts as good data. The authors focus on four key themes - authenticity, triangulation, background and relevance - to shine a light on business and professional discourse as essential contextual and intertextual. This book will be of interest to scholars working in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and business communication, but also other social scientists interested in a range of perspectives on oral, written and digital language use in workplace settings. Geert Jacobs is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium. Sofie Decock is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium.

Science --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Mass communications --- Comparative linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Linguistics --- etnologie --- etnografie --- communicatie --- onderzoeksmethoden --- linguïstiek --- sociolinguïstiek --- Applied linguistics. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Ethnology. --- Research --- Communication. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Research Methods in Language and Linguistics. --- Ethnography. --- Research Skills. --- Media and Communication. --- Methodology.

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This book explores the cognitive plausibility of computational language models and why it’s an important factor in their development and evaluation. The authors present the idea that more can be learned about cognitive plausibility of computational language models by linking signals of cognitive processing load in humans to interpretability methods that allow for exploration of the hidden mechanisms of neural models. The book identifies limitations when applying the existing methodology for representational analyses to contextualized settings and critiques the current emphasis on form over more grounded approaches to modeling language. The authors discuss how novel techniques for transfer and curriculum learning could lead to cognitively more plausible generalization capabilities in models. The book also highlights the importance of instance-level evaluation and includes thorough discussion of the ethical considerations that may arise throughout the various stages of cognitive plausibility research. .

Natural language processing (Computer science). --- Machine learning. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computational linguistics. --- Cognitive science. --- Applied linguistics. --- Natural Language Processing (NLP). --- Machine Learning. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computational Linguistics. --- Cognitive Science. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Natural language processing (Computer science)

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This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and communication processes. The author covers the concept of the keyword from its deictic origins in primate and proto-speech communities, through its development within oral traditions, to its initial appearances in numerous graphical forms and its workings over time within a variety of indexing traditions and technologies. The book follows the history all the way to its role in search engine optimization and social media strategies and its potential as an element in the slowly emerging semantic web, as well as in multiple voice search applications. The author synthesizes different perspectives on the significance of this often-invisible intermediary, both in and out of the library and information science context, helping readers to understand how it has come to be so embedded in our daily life. This book: Provides a thorough history of the keyword, from primate and proto-speech communities to current times Explains how the concept of the keyword relates to human cognition and communication processes Highlights the applications of the keyword, both in and out of the library and information science context.

Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Data structures (Computer science). --- Information theory. --- Computer science. --- History. --- Historical linguistics. --- Applied linguistics. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Data Structures and Information Theory. --- Computer Science. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Information Science --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Data structures (Computer science)