Publications

Publication details [#27105]

Flowerdew, John and Tony Dudley-Evans. 2002. Genre analysis of editorial letters to international journal contributors. Applied Linguistics 23 (4) : 463–489.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | editorial | genre | journalese | letter

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper discusses the results of a genre analysis of (one ditor's) summative editorial letters. It is argued that interpretation can be hampered because of the vague schematic structuring and the use of politeness strategies.