Original scientific paper
ETHNOGRAPHY OF WRITING: ON CERTAIN LINGUISTIC AND GENRE CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES / LETTERS
Iva Pleše
orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-9461
; Institute of Ethnology and Folkore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
As part of broader research devoted to the ethnography of electronic correspondence, the text deals with the linguistic aspect of practice linked with the use of electronic mail. On the basis of the author's electronic post archive, the article describes individual linguistic and genre characteristics of electronic messages, such as the opening and concluding greetings, the manner in which quotes are given, particular use of punctuation marks, and, as part of the ethnography of writing, also demonstrates interest in user thoughts on the language and genre of electronic postal texts. Due to the diverse value-judgements existing regarding the language of e-mail, the text touches on the question of the ostensible impoverishment of language in the electronic media and also on that of the so-called oral character of e-mail.
Keywords
ethnography of writing; language; e-mail
Hrčak ID:
23275
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2007.
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