Email hoaxes : form, function, genre ecology / Theresa Heyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heyd, Theresa.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 174.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 174

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic mail systems.

Impostors and imposture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How genres emerge and evolve on the Internet has become one of the central questions in studies of computer-mediated communication (CMC). This book addresses the issue of genrefication by giving an in-depth analysis of email hoaxes as a candidate for digital genre status. Email hoaxes are deceptive messages that spread in digital social networks; they are a fascinating object for discourse linguistics as they exemplify a major pragmatic tendency in CMC, namely deceptivity and a lowering of sincerity standards. This study examines formal and functional aspects of email hoaxes and provides ample evidence both from a systematized corpus and in situ data collected online. Besides a structural and microlinguistic analysis, it identifies key issues such as pragmatic duality, narrativity and textual variation and change in email hoaxes. In conclusion, a digital genre model is outlined that bridges both the old/new and the formal/functional gaps and may be applied to many other digital genre ecologies.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Introducing the data

3. Formal aspects of EHs: A microlinguistic analysis

4. The dynamics of EH transmission: Chronological aspects

5. The pragmatics of EHs

6. Narrativity in EHs

7. A genre study of EHs

References

Appendix

Index

Notes:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.

ISBN:

9786612105272

9781282105270

1282105272

9789027290533

9027290539

OCLC:

272369006