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Peer reviewedCroft, William; Taoka, Chiaki; Wood, Esther J. – Language Sciences, 2001
Analyzed the argument linking of the commercial transaction frame in English, Russian, and Japanese. The commercial transaction frame is semantically complex, because there are two transfers in opposite directions (money goes from buyer to seller and goods from seller to buyer). English and Russian construe the commercial frame in essentially the…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Japanese
