Are simple business request letters really simple? A comparison of Chinese and English business request letters.

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Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-141

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Author keywords

Contrastive rhetoric; Cross cultural communication; Discourse analysis; Second language acquisition.; Writing

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EID: 0009804948     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1998.18.1.103     Document Type: Article

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