Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work. Professional communication allows multi- and interdisciplinary explorations on how workplace relationships and mechanisms are influenced by the use of certain linguistic patterns. The book approaches the topic of professional communication from multiple levels, providing critical, valuable insights into the dynamics of

Romanian workplace communication has changed significantly in the past two decades. Multinational companies implemented western European and American communicative practices and patterns. Many linguistic innovations were adapted and adopted by Romanian language both at the structural and discourse level. Thus, new communicative patterns have emerged in professional Romanian. In this paper we present part of the results of a larger on-going research