The Discourse Strategy of an Appeals Letter

Longacre, Robert E.

doi:10.1075/pbns.16.06lon

In:Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text
Edited by William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 16] 1992
► pp. 109–130

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The Discourse Strategy of an Appeals Letter

Robert E. Longacre

Published online: 8 April 1992

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.16.06lon

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