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Publication details [#21134]

Longacre, Robert E. 1992. The discourse strategy of an appeals letter. In Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. Discourse description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text. John Benjamins. pp. 109–130.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

appellative | discourse analysis | letter

Annotation

This paper deals with the schema/superstructure of hortatory discourse, as exemplified by a fund-raising letter.