Abstract:For some years now, communication between university students and faculty members has favoured the use of emails as opposed to face-to-face consultations. Previous research has pointed out the difficulties students may face to write an email to a professor since sociopragmatic variables have to be taken into account to show deference. This study investigates whether students’ gender influences the structure, framing moves and pronouns of address in naturally-occurring requestive emails written in the students’… Show more
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