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Publication details [#11921]
Pilegaard, Morten. 1997. Politeness in Written Business Discourse: A Textlinguistic Perspective on Requests. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (2) : 223–244. 22 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
It is concluded that form, level and distribution of politeness correlate with status of the sender and that it varies in relation to the dynamics of business communication. It is noted that the textlinguistic study of politeness strategies may enrich our knowledge of business communication norms.