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Publication details [#56283]

Haugh, Michael, Bethan L. Davies, Andrew John Merrison and Jack J. Wilson. 2012. Getting stuff done: Comparing e-mail requests from students in higher education in Britain and Australia. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (9) : 1077–1098.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

e-mail communication | identity negotiation | language variety | request | university

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article states that the situated nature of student e-mail requests to academic staff in a British and an Australian university can strongly affect discursive student identity construction, which impacts how things get done in different English varieties.