Presenter: Vijay K Bhatia
Critical Genre Analysis -
Implications for English for Professional Communication
The present-day glocalised workplace offers a number of challenges to ESP researchers as well as practitioners, some of which include, bridging gap between the academy and the professions, integrating discursive and professional practices, understanding and accounting for generic complexity, designing of interdiscursively authentic ESP materials, leading to the acquisition of professional expertise. In this plenary, I would like to address some of these concerns within the framework of critical genre theory (Bhatia, 2017) viewed as interdiscursive performance.