Publications

Publication details [#52530]

Pexman, Penny M., Alastair J. Gill and Juanita M. Whalen. 2009. “Should Be Fun—Not!”: Incidence and Marking of Nonliteral Language in E-Mail. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28 (3) : 263–280.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

e-mail communication | figure of speech, comprehension of | hyperbole | language use | markedness

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study shows that e-mail authors are alive to the hazardous nature of nonliteral language deployment in e-mail communication, but savvy to this medium's available communicative tools.