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Email hoaxes : form, function, genre ecology /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., 174. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290533 9027290539 1282105272 9781282105270 |