"Dear Sirs, what would you do if you were in our position?". Discourse strategies in Italian and English money chasing letters

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1211-1233

  Vergaro, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business communication; Contrastive rhetoric; Discourse organization; English; Genre; Italian; Move structure analysis; Politeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036311327     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(02)00046-2     Document Type: Article

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