Implication versus inference: Analyzing Writer and Reader Representations in Business Texts

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 387-411

  Jameson, Daphne A ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

implied reader; implied writer; inference; narrative; reader response theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993767988     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569904270989     Document Type: Article

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