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Direct linkWagner, Esther-Miriam; Connolly, Magdalen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
This paper investigates code-switching and script-switching in medieval documents from the Cairo Geniza, written in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script), Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Legal documents regularly show a macaronic style of Judaeo-Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew, while in letters code-switching from Judaeo-Arabic to Hebrew is tied in with…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Semitic Languages, Medieval Literature, Written Language
Download full textAkbas, Erdem, Ed.; Hatipoglu, Ciler, Ed.; Bayyurt, Yasemin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This is the book of abstracts for the conference held in 2017 entitled: ''METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES: MAPPING INTERACTION IN SPOKEN & WRITTEN DISCOURSES'', also known as MAG2017. The 1st International Conference on Metadiscourse Across Genres took place in METU Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus between 30 March-1 April 2017 with the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Peer reviewedGimenez, Julio C. – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Investigates whether the spoken nature of electronic mail messages has already started to affect business written communication. Examines register and context of the language as well as the style used in commercial electronic mail. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Context Effect, Electronic Mail, Language Styles
Dubsky, Josef – Espanol Actual, 1975
This article discusses the various styles of commercial correspondence in Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Styles
Peer reviewedHong, Wei – Foreign Language Annals, 1998
Reports on an empirical study of the politeness strategies in Chinese business correspondence and considers its implications in teaching business Chinese. The study investigated 20 examples of business correspondence by native speakers of Chinese. By analyzing linguistic/stylistic features of the letters in two predesigned situations, the study…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Chinese, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedGains, Jonathan – English for Specific Purposes, 1999
A study analyzed and compared the discourse of electronic mail messages from commercial and academic environments. Key text features were examined for style and convention patterns. Results suggest commercial messages follow normal conventions for standard written business English, and academic users may view the medium as a pseudo-conversational…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Frank, Jane – 1990
A study examined the use of three linguistic features imitating speech found in two groups of direct-mail marketing texts, in order to show differences in the ways U.S.-based and transnational efforts exploit readers' expectations regarding "literate" versus "oral" modes of expression. Two groups of sales letters, 25 U.S.-based…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Discourse Analysis
