Genre analysis of the letters of appeal

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ID5966054
AuthorsVahid Sadeghi (0000-0002-5816-1769, University of Malaya, Malaysia, corresponding author), Moses Samuel (0000-0003-0124-5571, University of Malaya, Malaysia)
Year2013
Volume15
Issue2
Pages229-245
Publication date2013-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445612471467
OpenAlexW2056260288
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited11

This study uses the genre analysis methodology used in the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) school, relying mostly on Bhatia’s (1993, 2004) and Swales (1990) models of genre analysis. Two hundred letters of appeal written by postgraduate students whose native language was other than English in a public university in Malaysia were included in the study. The sample included letters written by a variety of students from different language backgrounds. The criterion for selecting the corpus was the communicative purpose (Askehave and Swales, 2001) of the letters: stating a request. The study analyzed the genre of the letters of appeal to identify the structural or rhetorical moves that existed in the genre

Appeal · Genre analysis · Linguistics · Political science · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Swale · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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