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标题：Analysis of Official Letters Based on Applied Genre Analytical Model
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作者：Melika Hadavi ; Behrooz Marzban ; Mostafa Morady Moghaddam 等
期刊名称：Journal of Language Teaching and Research
印刷版ISSN：1798-4769
出版年度：2015
卷号：6
期号：3
页码：588
DOI：10.17507/jltr.0603.15
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：Nowadays letters play a significant role in the realm of communication in general and in official or business occasions in particular. With the advent of emails, the function of letters is diminishing but in official contexts, letters have kept their value. The main concern of this paper is to show the interrelationship between different layers of official letters which are called textual, contextual, and social layers. Sixty authentic letters were analyzed according to the purpose of the authors. Through this investigation, five specific categories were found: Informative, Prescriptive, Appointment, Acknowledgment, and Invitation. Each category then was investigated according to Bhatia’s model of applied genre analysis in three domains which were mentioned above. It was found that there is a direct and positive relationship between these three layers. The direction is from social domain towards textual one in that the characteristics and features of social context affect the contextual domain and the context influences textual domain in respect. This study is a multi-faceted one in that all the five types of official letters are studied in accordance to three layers and the relationship between them is explained. This exploration shows that in official situations, ‘social identities’ are of paramount importance which have a remarkable influence on both conventions of the genre and textual features. This study is also helpful for those EFL students and all who need to write English official letters to avoid undue mistakes and to represent their thoughts clearly and fluently.
关键词：official letters; genre analysis; social power; textual features; correspondence