Table of contents
AcknowledgementsVII
Second language email pragmatics: Introduction1
Part I.Email literacy and pragmatic development
Chapter 1.Reformulation on Chinese EFL learners’ email literacy: A preliminary exploration15
Chapter 2.L2 emails of complaints: Strategy use by low and high proficiency learners of English as a foreign language41
Chapter 3.Long-term instructional effects on learners’ use of email request modifiers71
Chapter 4.Experts and novices: Examining academic email requests to faculty and developmental change during study abroad101
Part II.Relational practices in email communication
Chapter 5.Phatic communion in Chinese students’ gratitude emails in English: Production and perception129
Chapter 6.The effect of first language pragmatics on second language email performance: The case of Greek students’ email requests151
Chapter 7.Email communication in English and in German: A contrastive pragmatic investigation of German university students’ emails sent to university staff in their native and foreign language179
Chapter 8.In search of the missing grade: Egalitarianism and deference in L1 and L2 students’ emails to faculty members203
Chapter 9.“You are the best!”: Relational practices in emails in English at a Norwegian university227
Index255
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