Writing Business Emails in English as a Lingua Franca - how informal can you be? : An analysis of formality in BELF emails
As a result of globalisation, the number of companies working globally is increasing at an unprecedented pace. Consequently, the need to communicate with people from other countries is getting bigger. In such intercultural communication, a common language must be used to interact. The language of ch...
Main Author: | Pettersson, Lena |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen
2015
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118100 |
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