This book presents a textual analysis of 84 US job application letters. It defines those communicative acts as macro requests and examines the patterns of realization of specific requestive units contained in them. The study first provides a detailed characterization of job application letters and their context of situation from both a marketing and a linguistic perspective; it then overviews relevant literature on requests; and finally, using speech act theory and systemic functional linguistics as its theoretical background, it proposes a model for the analysis of elaborate requests. This work offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the corpus from both a macro- and a micro-perspective (i.e. at the textual and clausal levels). It also contains terminological classifications and provides suggestions for further reading and future research.
Job Application Letters as Requests: Characterization of a Genre Within Speech Act Theory
GESUATO, SARA
2001
Abstract
This book presents a textual analysis of 84 US job application letters. It defines those communicative acts as macro requests and examines the patterns of realization of specific requestive units contained in them. The study first provides a detailed characterization of job application letters and their context of situation from both a marketing and a linguistic perspective; it then overviews relevant literature on requests; and finally, using speech act theory and systemic functional linguistics as its theoretical background, it proposes a model for the analysis of elaborate requests. This work offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the corpus from both a macro- and a micro-perspective (i.e. at the textual and clausal levels). It also contains terminological classifications and provides suggestions for further reading and future research.
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