On some persuasive strategies in technical discourse: Cross-cultural analysis of directives in English and Czech technical manuals

The aim of the paper is to provide a cross-cultural analysis of selected linguistic realizations of persuasion in the language of technical communication represented by the genre of technical manuals (TM) and to identify the differences and similarities between the ways persuasion is expressed in th...

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Main Author: Povolná Renata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-12-01
Series:Topics in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2018-0011