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Publication details [#67063]

Tobback, Els. 2019. Telling the world how skilful you are: Self-praise strategies on LinkedIn. Discourse & Communication 13 (6) : 647–668.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
genre | linkedin | politeness | reported speech | self-praise | speech act
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

Certain discourse genres, however, like application letters, job interviews or the LinkedIn summaries which are the research object of this paper serve, by definition, to promote the professional as skilful.