Politeness Strategies in English Business Letters: a Comparative Study of Native and Non-Native Speakers of English

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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Main Authors: Goudarzi Elahe, Ghonsooly Behzad, Taghipour Zahra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-05-01
Series:Psychology of Language and Communication
Subjects:
business letter
politeness strategy
social distance
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2015-0004

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