Andrew Moore

http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/occupation.htm

Language and occupation:

 

-The forms and functions of talk; registers and styles of writing; historical and contemporary changes, where appropriate. In particular, they should examine:
everyday functions and activities (e.g. the role of interpersonal language)
discourse features.


in an explicit sense as those kinds of activity that we can name (job interview, team briefing, disciplinary tribunal, conference, marriage ceremony) or n a looser descriptive sense (discussing a problem, telling a manager about an incident, asking an expert for guidance). e.g communicating information, requesting help, onfirming arrangements,instructing employees or colleagues to do something, making things happen or enacting them 

-Occupations develop their own special language features, and use those of the common language in novel or distinctive ways.

Language interactions may occur between or among thosewithin a given occupation, or between those inside and those outside (customers, clients, the “general public”). This distinction will affect significantly a speaker's (or writer's) language choices.

 

-Some uses are exclusive, because they shut out people who do not know them. This happens when doctors share a common lexicon. e.g ECG, CAT-Scan

 

-You should also look at how speech interactions reveal hierarchies, and changing attitudes to these.

 

-Phatic tokens- These are ways of showing status by orienting comments to oneself, to the other, or to the general or prevailing situation (in England this is usually the weather).