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  • Letter Writingby Kay Cullen; Elaine O?Donoghue

    Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd 2005; US$ 10.00

    Packed with sample letters; Information boxes highlight points to remember; Special section deals with conventions of e-mail; Practical supplement examines spelling and punctuation. Packed with advice on all areas of correspondence, from email to business memos, this is an essential desktop companion. As well as giving general guidance on layout and tone, Letter Writing offers invaluable advice on specific areas of correspondence such as employment, condolence, complaints and invitations. more...

  • Der Liebesbriefby Renate Stauf

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 179.00

    If somebody in the 18th century had wanted to send a love letter using SMS text, they would have been doomed to fail - neither the technology nor the recipient would have been able to handle such a flood of emotional signs. Why is that? The present volume collects contributions from a variety of disciplines dealing with hitherto neglected questions of a cultural history of the love letter. The results are surprising - the love letter has its own rules, and is far more independent from the development of other forms of written culture than was previously assumed. more...

  • Letter Writingby Terttu Nevalainen; Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 120.00

    The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and North America in the eighteenth century. By bringing a set of corpus linguistic, discourse analytic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic approaches to bear on historical letter-writing activity, the articles both extend and complement the traditional letter-writing research in the history of European languages, which approaches the topic from a largely rhetorical perspective. The articles in this book were first published as a Special Issue of the Journal... more...

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