Politeness Strategies in English Business Letters: a Comparative Study of Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
This study investigated the use of politeness strategies in a corpus of English business letters written by Iranian non-native speakers in comparison with business letters written by English native speakers. The positive and negative politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson’s (1978) theo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015-05-01
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| Series: | Psychology of Language and Communication |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2015-0004 |