Unexpected Emails to Submit Your Work: Spam or Legitimate Offers? The Implications for Novice English L2 Writers

This article analyzes the discourse of what have been termed ‘predatory publishers’, with a corpus of emails sent to scholars by hitherto unknown publishers. Equipped with sociolinguistic and discourse analytic tools, we argue that the interpretation of these texts as spam or as...

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Main Authors: Josep Soler, Andrew Cooper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-01-01
Series:Publications
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/7/1/7