To improve the embedded recommendations from the consultants’ detailed reports. The discourse and its enhancement

Abstract

The present study has four principal aims. First, to offer a linguistic and

pragmatic characterization of a genre under a transformation process:

consultancy report. Second, to describe phases of the counseling process

that linguists provide to optimize this kind of report. Third, to analyze some

linguistic and discourse mechanisms, distinctive of this gender, as well as

the difficulty of its elaboration for professionals. Finally, to argue for the

need of a linguistic research line overlapped with the empirical results of

the improvement of the communicative exchanges produced in professional

settings (studies of discourse optimization).