Business writing as social action

Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-32

  Bargiela Chiappini, Francesca ^a   Nickerson, Catherine ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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