Acknowledgements -- Working with language: an introduction -- 1 Language in operational crisis. Editorial preface -- Non-routine conversation in operational crisis -- 2 Language and history. Editorial preface -- The use of language in the writing of history -- 3 Language training for immigrant professionals. Editorial preface -- Keeping language in its place -- 4 Relationships between language and work. Editorial preface -- The present and the future of work -- 5 The language of courtroom resistance. Editorial preface -- Defendant resistance to power and control in court -- 6 Language and scientific work. Editorial preface -- Science and the foreign-language barrier -- 7 The language of bureaucracy. Editorial preface -- Civil service English in Nigeria -- 8 The language of drama translation. Editorial preface -- A foreign country: on the translation of stage plays -- 9 The language of doctors and their patients. Editorial preface -- Approaches to describing doctor-patient interviews -- 10 The language of medical research. Editorial preface -- Language use and preference in Japanese medical communication -- 11 The language of computer conversations. Editorial preface -- When the medium determines turns: turn-taking in computer conversation -- 12 Testing the language of health personnel. Editorial preface -- An approach to the measurement of communicative ability in three health professions -- 13 Language and occupation in Bombay. Editorial preface -- Languages for survival and work in the Bombay slum of Dharavi -- 14 Language for specific purposes. Editorial preface -- An overview of English for specific purposes -- 15 Language in police work. Editorial preface -- Talk and police work: notes on the traffic in information -- 16 Language in the jury selection process. Editorial preface -- The structural and discoursal characteristics of voir dire.

17 The language of business negotiation. Editorial preface -- Language, culture and technical-commercial negotiating -- 18 Language and education in Peru. Editorial preface -- Puno: teacher, school and language -- 19 The language of nurse counsellors. Editorial preface -- Talk in an organization: organization in talk -- Notes on contributors -- Bibliography -- Author index.