Publications

Publication details [#48662]

Vergaro, Carla. 2008. On the pragmatics of concessive constructions in Italian and English business letter discourse. Multilingua 27 (3) : 255–283.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business letter | concessive utterance | genre | language and culture | pragmatics

Language as a subject

English | Italian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This article explores the pragmatic use of concessive constructions in English and Italian business letter discourse. Concessive constructions appear to be used in this genre both for propositional and procedural reasons.