Pronouns and metadiscourse as interpersonal rhetorical devices in fundraising letters: A corpus linguistic analysis

Crismore, Avon

doi:10.1075/scl.16.13cri

In:Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 16] 2004
► pp. 307–330

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Pronouns and metadiscourse as interpersonal rhetorical devices in fundraising letters: A corpus linguistic analysis

Avon Crismore

Published online: 30 November 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.16.13cri

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