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Publication details [#65284]

Ren, Wei. 2018. Pragmatic strategies to solve and preempt understanding problems in Chinese professionals’ emails when using English as lingua franca communication. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 21 (8) : 968–981.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

e-mail communication | lingua franca | pragmatics | professional language | understanding

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This inquiry explores 15 Chinese-English bilingual professionals’ real-life emails in English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication in Mainland China. It inspects and debates the pragmatic strategies used both to settle and to shun grasp problems when writing their emails in ELF communication.