Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne, course: Corpus Linguistics: Studies and Exercises, language: English, abstract: At first sight, prayers and letters might appear to be completely different genres. In fact, they show similarities, which make them worth comparing. A typical feature of prayers and letters is -the high involvement of the addressor with the addressee and the fact that the addressor performs speech acts which directly aim at the addressee- (Kohnen forthcoming b: 5). One can say...