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Publication details [#65318]

Paramasivam, Shamala and Shabina Kumari Subramaniam. 2018. Superior – Subordinate Request Email in Workplace Communication of a Malaysian Organisation. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 47 (3) : 161–187.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This inquiry explores request emails' structure and politeness display by Malaysian superiors when writing to subordinates. When face menace and infliction were low, superiors were imperious and when face menace and infliction were high, they were egalitarian.