Publications
Publication details [#12115]
Carroll, Tessa and Judy Delin. 1998. Written instructions in Japanese and English: A comparative analysis. Pragmatics 8 (3) : 339–385.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
The comparative analysis revealed differences in terms of linguistic structures and the factors affecting their selection, and in terms of the balance between diagrams and text in Japanese and British English instruction manuals.