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Publication details [#55634]

Geluykens, Ronald, ed. 2011. Politeness in Institutional Discourse. Face-Threatening Acts in Native and Nonnative English Business Letters. (LINCOM studies in pragmatics 20). LINCOM Europa.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

Drawing on Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness model, this volume reports on a large-scale contrastive quantitative analysis of multiple face-threatening acts in authentic institutional discourse, in particular native English, native Dutch, and English-Dutch interlanguage business letters. The study focuses on pragmatic, interlanguage, and crosscultural variation.