Mitigating e-mail requests in teenagers' first and second language academic cyber-consultation

Multilingua

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 779-799

  Soler, Eva Alcón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

E mail communication; Email requests; Intercultural communication; Pragmatic variation; Pragmatics; Request modifiers; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888271365     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/multi-2013-0037     Document Type: Article

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