汉德福德所著的《商务会议语言》系统介绍了CANBEC语料库的建设和语料库语言学方法，并以该语料库为语料进行词汇、词簇、话语和语体分析，深入研究商务会议结构、参会者话语实践、交际语言创造性、权势和限制等问题，并对商务英语教学提出可行性建议。该书对于商务会议研究具有开创性意义，是学习语料库语言学和商务语言专业学生和科研人员的必读书目，对于从事专门用途语言研究和任何语言研究的学者来说，都不啻为一部里程碑式的著作。

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1 CANBEC: Corpus and context

 1.1 Data collection

 1.2 Corpus constituency

 1.3 Contextual information

 1.4 Transcription and anonymization

 1.5 Corpus size and generalizability

 1.6 Outline of the book

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2 Background: Theory and methodology

 2.1 Theory

 2.2 Methodology

 2.3 Summary

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3 The business-meeting genre: Stages and practices

 3.1 Applying Bhatia's multi-perspective model of discourse to business meetings

 3.2 The meeting matrix

 3.3 Applying the meeting matrix

 3.4 Summary

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4 Significant meeting words: Keywords and concordances

 4.1 Institutional language and everyday English

 4.2 Lexico-grammatical theoretical considerations

 4.3 Word frequencies

 4.4 Keywords

 4.5 Summary

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5 Discourse marking and interaction: Clusters and practices

 5.1 Defining clusters

 5.2 Clusters in business research

 5.3 Cluster lists

 5.4 Categorization of clusters

 5.5 Clusters in context

 5.6 Summary

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6 Interpersonal language

 6.1 The transactional/relational linguistic distinction

 6.2 Pronouns

 6.3 Backchannels

 6.4 Vague language

 6.5 Hedges

 6.6 Deontic modality

 6.7 Summary

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7 Interpersonal creativity: Problem, issue, if, and metaphors and idioms

 7.1 Problem and issue

 7.2 If

 7.3 Metaphors and idioms

 7.4 Summary

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8 Turn-taking: Power and constraint

 8.1 Turn-taking in internal meetings

 8.2 Turn-taking in external meetings

 8.3 Summary

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9 Teaching and learning implications

 9.1 Who is the learner?

 9.2 Teaching materials: What do they teach?

 9.3 How can a corpus such as CANBEC be exploited?

 9.4 Summary

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 Appendix

 Index