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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Discourse members,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am a Master's student at McGill University,
Montreal. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>My thesis research is on <FONT
face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>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). </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jennifer</FONT></DIV>
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