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A Study of Personal Email Messages | ||
| journal of the college of basic education | ||
| Article 1, Volume 14, Issue 62, 2010, Pages 15-20 | ||
| Author | ||
| Maryam M. Hikmet | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper attempts to study some of the linguistic features of email messages or electronic mail messages as a means of communication and to find out whether emails; i.e. email messages can be considered as having features of the spoken language only or the written language only or both, or to regard emails as having a completely different language of communication, a language of its own that has its unique characteristics which do not exist neither in speech nor in writing. The corpus of analysis is 10 personal messages sent to the author of this paper and are selected from her two email boxes. These emails are analysed by the author herself and all of the studied categories are presented statistically. It becomes very clear that internet, including email communication though an up-to-date means of communication, cannot be dispensed with due to the recent technological development that affects all aspects of life including the way people communicate with each other. After analysing the data, it has been found very clearly that an email message has features of both speech and writing and such features do not make the language of an email message a wholly new one; i.e. a language that is different from speech or writing but a means of communication that is still evolving. | ||
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