Linguistic Audit as a Professional Activity

Cross-Linguistic Distinctions Between Professional and Non-Professional Speaking Styles

This work investigates acoustic and perceptual differences in four language varieties by using a corpus of professional and non-professional speaking styles. The professional stimuli are composed of excerpts of broadcast news and political discourses from six subjects in each case. The non-professional stimuli are made up of recordings of 10 subjects who read a long story and narrated it subseq...

Auditing Standards, Professional Judgement, and Audit Quality∗

This paper examines the economic consequences of tightening auditing standards. We recognize that both auditors’ incentives and expertise are relevant for audit effectiveness. On one hand, tighter auditing standards counter the misbehavior of rogue auditors. On the other hand, tighter standards restrict auditors’exercise of professional judgement, leads to auditors’compliance mentality, and red...

Learning as you go: an audit of continuing professional development opportunities in the workplace

The introduction of mandatory Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as a condition of podiatry registration has caused quite a deal of manic amongst the Podiatry population. What practitioners may underestimate is the amount of CPD that is undertaken as part of their everyday work practices. The podiatrists at Eastern Health are fortunate to have a supportive work environment that aims to f...

Complexity as a Linguistic Variable

One of the problematic aspects of “complexity” is still its definition. We encounter many definitions and criteria for a system being complex from different points of view, some of which give rise to contradictory results: for a given system some definitions deduce that the system is complex, but others lead to the opposite result. An attempt is made to deal with the concept of complexity from ...

‘ Organisation ’ as a linguistic construct

'Organisation' as a linguistic construct. " As the idea of an ultimate foundation for moral and political beliefs has become increasingly implausible, theorists have turned to 'discourse' to provide a basis on which to defend the legitimacy of social and political practices. The turn to discourse, which includes but is not limited to communicative ethics, is in part a move from a substantive to...

Tackling domestic violence. An audit of professional practice.