Email hoaxes : form, function, genre ecology /
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| Author / Creator: | Heyd, Theresa. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008. |
| Description: | vii, 239 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 174 |
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| Format: | Dissertations Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6862420 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 239 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027254184 9027254184 |