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Abstract
This commentary attempts to offer a practitioner's perspective on the use of hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations and how it might be explored in a Business English learning environment to help learners with English and negotiating skills. Some textbook materials on negotiations were reviewed for this purpose and some suggested activities are provided.
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English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.
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