Professional Communication

Article

• Lumineau, Fabrice and Clotilde Landais. “La narration du dirigeant : une approche herméneutique.” Revue Française de Gestion 6.159 (2005): 71-81.

This article is a literary analysis of Abraham Zaleznik's text “The Education of Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968,” published in 2005. Thanks to a hermeneutical approach, the authors show that Zaleznik's rhetorical skillfulness serves a tacit argument.

Conference Proceedings

• Menagarishvili, Olga, Clotilde Landais, Angela Armstrong, and Niall A. Peach. “Energy Communication in International Context.” International Professional Communication Conference Proceedings, July 23-26, 2019. IEEE ProComm (2019): 8-17.
DOI 10.1109/ProComm.2019.00008

Energy communication is a relatively new subfield that explores energy's role in society as well as ways of communicating about energy. Because this is such a new subfield, few contexts for energy communication have been studied. The purpose of this paper is to consider energy communication as found in international, digital contexts that have not been examined before, including several genres used in Sweden, Russia, France, the US, and Spain. First, we attempt to determine which aspects of energy's societal role are discussed on four websites belonging to technical Swedish and Russian universities. Second, we look at cultural strategies of influence in French and US energy ad campaigns. Finally, we examine the website of a Spanish-founded multinational energy company using dromology (the study of speed) as our framework to explore the shift to green energy and the inclusion of the arts in energy communication. Future research includes studies of other genres of energy communication in an even wider variety of contexts.