self-promotionn in written discourse

[Zouhair Maalej]

Dear all,
I have published a paper on self-promotional written discourse, with special
reference to dating ads or lonely heart ads:

Maalej, Zouhair (1999). "Interpersonal Perception in Self-Promotional
Discourse." The Tunisian Review of
Modern Languages 9, 155-174.

I was more interested in perception of males by females and vice versa. If
you are interested, I can send you a hard copy by snail-mail.

I hope this will help you.
Kind regards
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Dr Zouhair Maalej,
Department of English, Chair,
Faculty of Letters,
University of Manouba,
Tunis-Manouba, 2010, Tunis, Tunisia.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Hrazdil <jennifer.hrazdil at MCGILL.CA>
To: DISCOURS at listserv.linguistlist.org <DISCOURS at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Date: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:03 AM
Subject: self-promotionn in written discourse


Dear Discourse members,

I am a Master's student at McGill University, Montreal. My thesis research
is on self-promotional discourse, particularly as it relates to second
language pragmatic competence. I am looking at the way in which a group of
undergraduate students present themselves in written self-appraisals of
their course performance.

While there has been much research on politeness in social interactions
(with the focus on attending to the face needs of the interlocutor), there
seems to be considerably less on the equally pragmatically challenging
domain of self-promotion in social interactions (with a focus on attending
to one's own face needs).

What I have found has come mainly from the Human Resource Management and
Social Psychology literature, neither of which seem to have a very discourse
analysis tradition.

I would be very interested to know whether anyone knows of research focussed
specifically on self-promotion in written or oral discourse, from any
theoretical perspective.

Thank you!
Jennifer