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Publication details [#14035]

Evans, Karin U. H. 1998. Organizational patterns of American and German texts for business and economics: A contrastive study. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (6) : 681–703.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastive method | corpus analysis | text organization | topic

Language as a subject

English, American | German

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines whether German texts feature a different organizational structure than English texts. Although no statistically significant differences were found, the topical analysis did reveal some contrastive tendencies.