Email Discourse Among Chinese Using English as a Lingua Franca

Email Discourse Among Chinese Using English as a Lingua Franca edited by Yuan-shan Chen, Der-Hwa Victoria Rau, Gerald Rau.

This edited volume makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning research field of English as a lingua franca. In a pioneering step, the collection is exclusively devoted to the English email discourse of Chinese speakers. The studies address innovative topics related to various contexts and relat...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chen, Yuan-shan (Editor), Rau, Der-Hwa Victoria (Editor), Rau, Gerald (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Applied linguistics.
Language and education.
Philology.
Linguistics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Negotiating Personal Relationship through Email Terms of Address
  • Discourse Organization and Features of Email Writing among EFL Students in Taiwan
  • Do Chinese Students Waffle in Their Apologies?: An Exploration into EFL Learners’ Emails
  • Politeness and Effectiveness of English Email Requests: Taiwanese Professors’ Perspectives
  • Emailing Requests to International Researchers: The Construction of Identity by Chinese EFL Graduate Students
  • Intercultural Taoci Email: New Wine in an Old Bottle
  • Strategies Used in Chinese University Students’ ELF Emails to Remedy or Prevent Problems in Understanding
  • Openings and Closings in Intercultural Email Communication: A Case Study of Taiwanese, Japanese, and Italian Students
  • Apologies in Emails: Interactions between Chinese EFL Learners and Their Foreign Peers
  • Status-Congruence in Request E-mail Discourse of Professional Secretaries in a University of Taiwan
  • A Study on Symbolic Competence and Face in ELF Email Communication
  • Top Secret: Hacking and Fraud Detection in Business Emails of a Taiwanese Company.

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