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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Теория языка. Семиотика. Семантика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2299</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2411-1236</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">51176</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2299-2026-17-1-186-204</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">IFYKYM</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>CORPUS STUDIES</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>КОРПУСНЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">A Generic Structure Analysis of Arabic and English Response Letters to Complaints</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Структурный анализ типичных ответных писем на жалобы на арабском и английском языках</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4282-1416</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Derki</surname><given-names>Noureddine</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Дерки</surname><given-names>Н.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Linguistics, Professor (Assistant)</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор филологических наук, доцент</p></bio><email>derkinoureddine@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University Mustapha Stambouli of Mascara</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Мустафы Стамбули в Маскаре</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-07-02" publication-format="electronic"><day>02</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>17</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>186</fpage><lpage>204</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-07-09"><day>09</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2026, Derki N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2026, Дерки Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Derki N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Дерки Н.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/51176">https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/51176</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Our study aims to examine the generic structure of responses letters to complaints in Arabic and English. A corpus of 80 letters was collected from Algerian Arabic users, EFL learners as well as American and British native speakers of English. The researcher provided the participants with three complaint situations and they were required to choose only one situation and write a response letter to it. The results revealed that response letters to complaints in Arabic and English adhere to the same generic structure composed of seven moves and twenty-one steps. It was found that several factors particularly culture and the correspondents’ social rank significantly influence the overall structure of complaint letters.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Целью исследования является изучение общей структуры ответных писем на жалобы на арабском и английском языках. Был собран корпус из 80 писем от алжирских пользователей арабского языка, изучающих английский как иностранный, а также американских и британских носителей английского языка. Исследователь предложил участникам три ситуации с жалобами, и им было предложено выбрать только одну и написать по ней ответное письмо. Результаты показали, что ответные письма на жалобы на арабском и английском языках придерживаются одной и той же общей структуры, состоящей из семи ходов и двадцати одного шага. Было установлено, что несколько факторов, в частности культура и социальный статус корреспондентов, существенно влияют на общую структуру писем с жалобами.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Algeria</kwd><kwd>Genre analysis</kwd><kwd>Response to complaints</kwd><kwd>Speech act</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Алжир</kwd><kwd>жанровый анализ</kwd><kwd>ответ на жалобы</kwd><kwd>речевой акт</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Gelbrich, K., &amp; Roschk, H. (2011). A Meta-Analysis of Organizational Complaint Handling and Customer responses. 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