Power distance in English lingua franca email communication  

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Bjorge, Anne Kari

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 1 (Mar. 2007), page 60-80.
Fulltext: Bjrge_Anne_Kari.pdf (318.74KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IJA/17 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study investigates level of formality in international students' emails sent to academic staff. National cultures have different traditions when it comes to adopting an egalitarian or a more distant student-professor relationship. Hofstede's cultural dimension of power distance (PO) is used to distinguish between relatively high and relatively low PO cultures. The students' choice of initial greeting and complimentary close is discussed with respect to PO ranking, rapport management and the sociopragmatic conventions set out in business communication literature. The analysis is based on 344 emails written by 110 students in Norway, a low PO culture. The findings indicate that students from relatively high PO cultures are more likely to opt for formal alternatives, concluding that national culture is an aspect to take into account when analysing lingua franca English communication.

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