Investigating impoliteness in workplace emails by Chinese users of English

This paper presents a number of findings concerning impoliteness within the workplace email of Chinese users of English.  Particular interest was given to the exploration of the relationship between specific speech acts and the occurrence of impoliteness and non-politeness; what impolite devices we...

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Main Author: Lan Li
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Aalborg Universitetsforlag 2016-06-01
Series:Globe
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Online Access:https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/globe/article/view/1222