This thesis has collected 156 business letters and analyzed their characteristics within the framework of V. K. Bhatia's cognitive structuring model. Each kind of the business letters follows different moves and with...This thesis has collected 156 business letters and analyzed their characteristics within the framework of V. K. Bhatia's cognitive structuring model. Each kind of the business letters follows different moves and within moves, a wide range of strategies are employed. This paper on the one hand illustrates the different structures of business letters and on the other hand demonstrates that the sequencing of the moves enjoys a great flexibility, which to some degree reflects the dynamic nature of genre.展开更多
文摘This thesis has collected 156 business letters and analyzed their characteristics within the framework of V. K. Bhatia's cognitive structuring model. Each kind of the business letters follows different moves and within moves, a wide range of strategies are employed. This paper on the one hand illustrates the different structures of business letters and on the other hand demonstrates that the sequencing of the moves enjoys a great flexibility, which to some degree reflects the dynamic nature of genre.