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BUSINESS Email Exchanges and the Use of politeness formulas in english and romanian
BUSINESS Email Exchanges and the Use of politeness formulas in english and romanian

Author(s): Petre Brezeanu
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: email exchanges; business professional communication; politeness formulas.

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the use of politeness formulas in business e-mail exchanges contrastively for English and Romanian. Salutations, terms of address, solicitudes, seasonal greetings, complimentary closes and closing formulas are analyzed in email exchanges written in English, respectively in Romanian by employees working in a multinational company. Special attention is paid to the choice of grammatical structures and of vocabulary items used in this type of professional communication.

  • Issue Year: 22/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 122-128
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English