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Peer reviewedZhang, John Z. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1990
Studies the speech act strategies of indirectness in professional letter writing through an analysis of statements which were evaluated by college seniors. Discusses indirectness strategies from the perspectives of (1) value index; (2) writer/addressee orientation; (3) linguistic characterization; and (4) location within sentences. Suggests that…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Higher Education, Letters (Correspondence), Persuasive Discourse
