Language and the Internet

Finding an identity 89 an emphatic prefix, producing such forms ask-kool,k-awesome, andk-k-allright. The extent to which deviant ...

90 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET odd combinations of punctuation marks can appear at the end of a sentence:IsthistrueofYahoo!?(where ...

Finding an identity 91 this would be equivalent to saying Hear what my nice computer has done now but by showing the ‘erased’ el ...

92 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET has limited Internet presence. Likewise, the use of programming devices that affect or replace conv ...

Finding an identity 93 was ‘last year’, and ‘nobody uses it now’. These are the influences which require guidebooks, such asWire ...

4Thelanguageofe-mail At one level, it is extremely easy to define the linguistic identity of e-mail as a variety of language; at ...

The language of e-mail 95 Structural elements An individual e-mail consists of a series of functional elements, for which termin ...

96 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET The fact that these are core elements is supported by the informa- tion electronically recorded onc ...

The language of e-mail 97 the sender is connected (it may also disappear into cyberspace and never be seen again).^4 The same co ...

98 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET ‘DON’T GO TO SLEEP WITHOUT READING THIS’) or which have certain words emphasized (‘Technology for Y ...

The language of e-mail 99 Although the header is formally distinct from the message area below, it is not always functionally se ...

100 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET do not usually greet, though the range of auto responses received by my son include: Dear BEN CRYS ...

The language of e-mail 101 greeting.^9 They express a wide range of effects, from most formal to most informal, and indicate sev ...

102 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET greetings defies easy generalization. Other factors than social rela- tionship enter in: only a mi ...

The language of e-mail 103 formula. I have only one instance in my files of a closing formula which was not followed by a name – ...

104 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET (1) ... so I hope to hear from you soon. Dr James Smith 333 Some Street, Somewhere, POSTCODE, UK T ...

The language of e-mail 105 By contrast, most of my son’s contacts do add such messages. E-mail guides are circumspect in their a ...

106 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET The overriding impression I have, even from such a small sam- ple of material, is of the remarkabl ...

The language of e-mail 107 As with other domains, allowing a range of linguistic options increases the communicative power of a ...

108 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Table 4.1.Five rules of using e-mail (Flynn and Flynn, 1998: 14) Rules Gloss Write as though Mom w ...