Requests in Professional Discourse: A Cross-cultural Study of British, American and Finnish Business WritingSuomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1994 - 304 pages |
Contents
LIST OF FIGURES | 12 |
Professional Discourse | 36 |
THE RHETORICAL ARRANGEMENT | 121 |
Copyright | |
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ACLT ACLV BCLT ACLV BCLT BCLV addressee American textbooks anticipation statements approach arrangement ATBV BTBV FCLV ATBV group BCLT BCLV ATBV BCLV ATBV BTBV British textbooks Brown and Levinson business communication business letters chi-square test clause concerning contains Cooperative Principle core corpus cross-cultural cultural declarative mood declarative requests employed example Fanshel figure Finnish business Finnish language frequency functional property genre Gricean maxims Group ACLT ACLV Halliday illocutionary force illustrate imperative indicate indirectness interactive business writing interactive writing involvement language Leech level discourse lexical linguistic choices Maxim metafunctions modal modal-initial requests paragraph participant perspective passive orientation percentages politeness power quality pragmatic force professional real-life realized reference request orientation Requests for Quotation rhetorical semantic sentence mood speaker speech acts spoken strategy structure Table TB groups tertium comparationis textbook groups textual thematic transactional situation transactional stage University of Turku utterance variation verb Yli-Jokipii