Email Hoaxes
Form, function, genre ecology
Author
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 evidence both from a systematized corpus and in situ data collected online. Besides a structural and 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.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 174] 2008. vii, 239 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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1. Introduction | pp. 1–11
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2. Introducing the data | pp. 13–38
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3. Formal aspects of EHs: A microlinguistic analysis | pp. 39–69
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4. The dynamics of EH transmission: Chronological aspects | pp. 71–127
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5. The pragmatics of EHs | pp. 129–153
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6. Narrativity in EHs | pp. 155–189
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7. A genre study of EHs | pp. 191–215
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8. References | pp. 217–223
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9. Appendix | pp. 225–231
“The book represents a useful addition to existing studies on online discourse, especially email and related asynchronous phenomena.”
Astrid Ensslin , Bangor University, Wales, UK, in Discourse Studies 12(2), 2010
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics