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Publication details [#51620]

Rains, Stephen A., Geoffrey R. Tumlin and Mark L. Knapp. 2009. Electronic bumper stickers: the content and interpersonal functions of messages attached to e-mail signatures. Discourse Studies 11 (1) : 105–120.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | e-mail communication | function | mediation | message1

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores the content and interpersonal communicative function of electronic bumper stickers (EBS), i.e. e-mail signature attached messages. It then examines how e-mail and EBS usage affect mediated communication skills.