The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes
Description:... Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).
• Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP
• Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars
• Explores the history of ESP and current areas of research, including speaking, reading, writing, technology, and business, legal, and medical English
• Considers perspectives on ESP research such as genre, intercultural rhetoric, multimodality, English as a lingua franca and ethnography
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