Publications

Publication details [#11760]

Kessapidu, Sevasti. 1997. A Critical Linguistic Approach to a Corpus of Business Letters in Greek. Discourse & Society 8 (4) : 479–500. 22 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business letter | causality | communicative function

Language as a subject

Greek, Modern

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Corpus analysis of Greek business letters reveal 5 textual dimensions underlying clusters of linguistic features: existential, verbal, mental and relational processes and degree of writer commitment to the communicative event in question.