'Can we count on your bookings of potatoes to Madeira?' Corporate context and discourse practices in direct sales letters

Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 181-206

  van Nus, Miriam ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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