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Publication details [#13727]
Virtanen, Tuija. 1995. Analysing Argumentative Strategies: A Reply to a Complaint. In Wårvik, Brita, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Risto Hiltunen, eds. Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. (Anglicana Turkuensia 15). University of Turku. pp. 539–548.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The focus of this paper is on argumentative strategies in a reply to a complaint. The author compares his own interpretation of a sample text with readers' impressions of the essence of the text, using the Rhetorical Structure Theory.