Language and the Internet

The language of e-mail 109 traditional prescriptive pedagogy, the effect is nonetheless to re- inforce a highly selective view o ...

110 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET is especially strong in manuals of business communication, but the principle has wider relevance. ...

The language of e-mail 111 communicative domain. But the speed and spontaneity with which e-mails can be written and sent makes ...

112 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET The latter examples are rare, in my experience. Of the hundreds of e-mail typing errors I have see ...

The language of e-mail 113 an acknowledgement that there has been a previous message: direct feedback expressions, just as in ev ...

114 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET The length of the text comprising the body of an e-mail is rel- atively short. A sample of 50 pers ...

The language of e-mail 115 Table 4.2.Paragraph length (in lines) in a personal sample of e-messages No of Personalized Instituti ...

116 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET (1) I hope to be there by six, though everything depends on the trains. Will you be coming by trai ...

The language of e-mail 117 companies which retain a paper record of their messages, printing out the most recent ones (as oppose ...

118 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET I know – remember last time? Car >I hope to be there by six, though everything depends on the & ...

The language of e-mail 119 quotation. Thus, for example, I sent the following paragraph (5) to someone, who replied as (6), cutt ...

120 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET e-mail thread to find the original remarks. And dealing with several points at once (a common stra ...

The language of e-mail 121 of organization and logical progression; but in an e-mail, where the points are taking up different i ...

122 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET nervousness about losing control of format; but then suddenly that bridgehead collapsed, and now a ...

The language of e-mail 123 a style that is more likely to be heard in commercial broadcasting than in graphic advertising: How w ...

124 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET names), or both, as in these examples: log onto the address below and you will see a mock up of ou ...

The language of e-mail 125 The uniqueness of e-mail Writers repeatedly draw analogies between e-mail and other forms of communic ...

126 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET with each other to ‘call me back’); on the other hand, if an im- mediate response is essential, an ...

The language of e-mail 127 there any way of knowing who will eventually see it or edit it. The e-mail guides are thus very empha ...

128 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET the option of greater levels of informality than are found elsewhere in traditional writing. But a ...