Publications

Publication details [#45964]

Fung, Lancy. 2007. The Communicative Role of Self-repetition in a Specialised Corpus of Business Discourse. Language Awareness 16 (3) : 224–238.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business language | communicative function | corpus analysis | intercultural communication | repeating

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This corpus study explores the form and communicative functions of self-repetition instances in naturally-occurring business discourse between native and non-native English speakers in Hong Kong.