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Publication details [#53123]

Mboudjeke, Jean-Guy. 2010. Linguistic politeness in job applications in Cameroon. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (9) : 2519–2530.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | job interview | language and culture | letter | politeness

Language as a subject

French, Cameroon

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study draws on Brown and Levinson's and Kerbrat-Orecchionni's politeness models to explore how semiliterate French in Cameroon encode linguistic politeness in written job applications.