Public relations practitioners as language workers

A laptop sits on a desk by a coffee cup. Ethics on the Page Repositioning language, professional responsibility in public relations. Doctoral dissertation. Ethics on the Page Repositioning language, power, and professional responsibility in public relations

Purpose

PhD dissertation for the Communications & Media Studies doctoral program

Description

Public relations is a field of words, and yet very little is known about how professional communicators think about their ethical responsibilities when writing. I conducted 22 metalinguistic interviews with communicators to discuss the ethical concerns they encountered when writing.

My interdisciplinary framework examined professional communicators as a speech community of language workers with a responsibility for language. It began with ethical conscience theory and drew lessons from sociolinguistics, Technical and Professional Communications, and education to build an argument for moving the field to Critical Language Awareness.

Type of Project

Qualitative research, secondary research, interviews, interdisciplinary

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