Email Hoaxes. Form, function, genre ecology.
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| Title: | Email Hoaxes. Form, function, genre ecology. |
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| Description: | How genres emerge and evolve on the Internet has become one 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 are a 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. |
| Authors: | HEYD, Theresa |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Impostors and imposture, Electronic mail systems, Electronic mail messages |
| Categories: | COMPUTERS / System Administration / Email Servers |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | How genres emerge and evolve on the Internet has become one 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 are a 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027254184 9789027290533 |
