Structural Moves Reflected in English and Chinese Sales Letters

Discourse Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 473-496

  Yunxia, Zhu ^a  

^a UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

communicative purposes; cross cultural comparative study; sales genres; structural moves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993687260     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445600002004004     Document Type: Article

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