Speech Act Theory and Degrees of Directness in Professional Writing.

Riley, Kathryn

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Publication Date: 1988

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Speech Act Theory and Degrees of Directness in Professional Writing.

Riley, Kathryn

Technical Writing Teacher, v15 n1 p1-29 Win 1988

Suggests that speech act theory can help researchers and teachers in professional communication to define indirectness more precisely and to determine when it is appropriate and can provide them with a means of analyzing texts and refining rhetorical principles. (ARH)

Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business English, Code Switching (Language), Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Language Styles, Language Usage, Letters (Correspondence), Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Speech Acts, Technical Writing

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