Politeness Strategies in Pakistani Business English Letters

• DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v6i3.5406
• Publication Date: 2014-07-13T07:29:44Z
• Authors: Mariam Gillani; Rashid Mahmood
• Keywords: Business English; Business communication; Politeness maxims; Politeness Theory

The present study explores the politeness strategies used in Pakistani business letters written English. It benefits from both qualitative and quantitative approaches of research. A specialized corpus, ‘Pakistani Business English Letters’ (PBEL), has been compiled correspondence. PBEL consists 1000 collected government semi-government institutes e.g. banks, universities, private companies, factories etc 2011. This investigates differences between American ways using external parts Opening Closing letter. Brown Levinson (1987) model adapted software ANTCONC 3.2.4 as research tool this to calculate frequent letters. is very insightful for teachers learners regarding usage communication. textbook writers can benefit it will acquaint them with use intra-national international