EHs are false messages spread electronically via the forward function of email programs. EHs are defined as "a typical case of deceptive computer-mediated communication" (p. Number of pages: 239.Ĭhapter 1, "Introduction," is the introduction to the volume. The book contains seven chapters, an appendix, a table of contents and an index. This research question leads to the definition of a framework for the linguistic analysis of genre in general. It is a genre study of a computer-mediated text type, the email hoax (EH), in which the author investigates a corpus of EHs in order to assess whether a status of genre can be given to this discourse form. The book is based on the thesis submitted by the author, Theresa Heyd, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in April 2007. Marina Santini, Honorary Research Fellow in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, UK. Subject: Email Hoaxes: Form, Function, Genre EcologyĪUTHOR: Heyd, Theresa TITLE: Email Hoaxes SUBTITLE: Form, Function, Genre Ecology SERIES: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 174 YEAR: 2008 PUBLISHER: John Benjamins Message 1: Email Hoaxes: Form, Function, Genre Ecology LINGUIST List 21.75 Thu Review: Discourse Analysis Linguistic Theories Pragmatics: Heyd (2008)Įmail Hoaxes: Form, Function, Genre Ecology
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