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Shvanyukova, Polina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This article is concerned with the history of "yours sincerely," a popular closing formula in English epistolary discourse. The formula was already used sporadically in the seventeenth century, gradually increased in frequency in the Late Modern period, and was the preferred subscription in English business correspondence by the end of…
Descriptors: Business English, History, Language Usage, Letters (Correspondence)
Davison, Walter – 1973
The main objective of this manual, which contains 39 lessons, is to provide interesting exercises for practice in English segmental phonemes. Sounds are taught first within the context of individual words with emphasis on aural recognition and oral reproduction. The vocabulary is then used within the context of phrases and sentences to accustom…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Audiolingual Methods, Communication (Thought Transfer), Consonants