Persuasion in Specialised Discourses

Focusing on the analysis of persuasion in written texts, this book investigates academic articles, corporate reports, religious sermons, and user manuals in English and Czech. The authors reveal cultural and genre-based rhetorical strategies, utilizing established frameworks for contextualizing specialized discourse, participant roles, genre constraints, and writer-reader interaction. This comprehensive study is designed for researchers and students in Discourse Studies, particularly those interested in genre and rhetoric.