Black Technical and Professional Communication is defined as ”practices that are centered around community, culture, rhetorical practices inherent in the lived experience. TPC reflective of cultural, economic, social, political experiences people across Diaspora” (Black Taskforce). This special issue emphasizes importance valuing fundamental to developing a comprehensive understanding technical...

In the era of globalization and social distancing, intercultural dialogue plays a crucial role requires thorough reinterpretation. It is impossible without foreign language proficiency. Therefore, teaching languages key to professional competency personal growth. Language reflects culture functions as universal tool mutual understanding. makes it possible embrace interlocutor’s mentality throug...

BACKGROUND This study investigated whether the introduction of professional development teaching in the first two years of a medical course improved students' observed communication skills with simulated patients. Students' observed communication skills were related to patient-centred attitudes, confidence in communicating with patients and performance in later clinical examinations. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Radiotherapy (RT) units are high-tech nursing environments. In Sweden, RT registered nurses (RNs) provide and manage RT in close collaboration with other professional groups, as well as providing nursing care for patients with cancer. Communication demands on these RNs are thus particularly complex. In this study, we aimed to better understand problems, strengths and change needs rel...

The paper argues that everyday exchange of business emails produces a development in the work-group relationship, which, in turn, makes new communication styles possible and acceptable by the users' habit to computer-mediated forms, even in unbalanced professional exchanges. The focus is on the (spoken) discourse features of email messages in a self-compiled corpus of selected computer-mediated...

Increasingly, information and communication technology (ICT) uses are transforming professional activities and interactions in ways that challenge traditional assumptions about professional identity. In this paper, we consider how ICT uses by research scientists in oceanography and marine biology shape professional identity. Empirical data are drawn from an ongoing study of ICT use in collabora...