Publications

Publication details [#43402]

Vergaro, Carla. 2005. ‘Dear Sirs, I hope you will find this information useful’: discourse strategies in Italian and English ‘For Your Information’ (FYI) letters. Discourse Studies 7 (1) : 109–135.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | language and culture | letter | politeness | pragmatics

Language as a subject

English | Italian

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on data from a corpus of authentic Italian and English business letters, this paper contrastively analyzes Italian and English writers' cultural preferences when engaged in ‘For Your Information’ letter writing.