Email Hoaxes: Form, Function, Genre Ecology

by Theresa Heyd

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027254184
• ISBN13: 9789027254184
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 9.7"