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The Disappearance of Business Communication From Professional Communication Programs in English Departments
- Source :
- Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 35:433-468
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- Since 1985, the field of professional communication has grown in size and reputation while maintaining a space within its primary disciplinary home of the English department. This article relies on historical evidence to examine how a field that was once evenly divided between business communication and technical communication is now technical communication-centric, almost to the exclusion of business communication. The authors pose questions about the field of professional communication and how faculty who consider business communication to be their primary discipline (regardless of their disciplinary home) might play a role in future discussions related to disciplinarity and domains of knowledge.
- Subjects :
- professional communication history
business.industry
Communication
Field (Bourdieu)
media_common.quotation_subject
Professional communication
business communication
Space (commercial competition)
Public relations
General Business, Management and Accounting
disciplinary definitions
professional communication
Sociology
Business and International Management
business
Discipline
Business communication
curricular geographies
Reputation
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15524574 and 10506519
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Business and Technical Communication
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1f9ee6115738295bab9529b249d5d192