Acknowledgements -- Transcription conventions -- 1. Coaching and linguistics: an introduction -- 2. Executive coaching -- 3. Emotions and emotionally intelligent coaching -- 4. The basic activity model of executive coaching -- 5. Defining the situation -- 6. Building the relationship -- 7. Co-constructing change -- 8. Evaluating the coaching -- 9. Executive coaching: a hybrid and interdiscursive professional format -- References -- Index.