Email hoaxes
form, function, genre ecology
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Author
Publication
2007 - John Benjamins Pub. Co., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Language
English
Word Count
59,750 words, Guess
Page Count
239 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveemailhoaxesformf00heyd
- ISBN-139789027254184
- ISBN-109027254184
- Library of Congress Control Number2007051472
- OCLC Control Number185123401
and 2 more
- Better World Books9789027254184
- Open LibraryOL16364865M
Classifications
- DDC384.3/4
- LCCHE7551 .H49 2007
- LCCHE7551 .H49 2008
and 1 more
- LCCHE7551.H49 2007
Description
"How genres emerge and evolve on the Internet has becomeone of the central questions in studies of computer-mediated communication (CMC). This book addresses the issue of genrefication by giving an in-depth analysis of email hoaxes as a candidate for digital genre status. Email hoaxes are deceptive messages that spread in digital social networks; they area fascinating object for discourse linguistics as they exemplify a major pragmatic tendency in CMC, namely deceptivity and a lowering of sincerity standards. This study examines formal and functional aspects of email hoaxes and provides ample evidence both from a systematized corpus and in situ data collected online. Besides a structural arid microlinguistic analysis, it identifies key issues such as pragmatic duality, narrativity and textual variation and change in email hoaxes. In conclusion, a digital genre model is outlined that bridges both the old/new and the formal/functional gaps and may be applied to many other digital genre ecologies."--Jacket.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Pragmatics & beyond -- new ser., v. 174
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