scholarly journals Features of idiolect in the punctuation of electronic mail

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Gintarė Žalkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Electronic Discourse ◽  
Punctuation Mark

  The article deals with the usage of punctuation marks in the emails of six different authors. Punctuation marks belong to the graphical level of a text, which makes the electronic discourse more distant from standard written language. As a result, a prediction is made that in the electronic communication punctuation marks may be used specifically. The aim of the article is to determine whether punctuation in electronic mail can be linked with the author's idiolect. The corpus of electronic messages under investigation consists of 65,090 words. In total, there are 13,548 punctuation marks used in it. In the present analysis of punctuation, an attempt is made to measure the total number of punctuation marks as well as the number of them as used by each author. In addition the situations in which each punctuation mark is used are also investigated. In the analysis of general tendencies in punctuation mark usage, it has been noted that many different punctuation marks are used in electronic messages. The most numerous marks have proved to be regular ones such as commas, full stops, question marks, dashes, suspension points, brackets, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. The punctuation marks that are used sparingly in traditional written language and electronic communication (various combinations of different punctuation marks, non-traditional variants of punctuation marks, slashes, semicolons) could have the identification value if they were used frequently by any of the authors in their texts.

From Thought to Action

2018 ◽  
pp. 397-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Rapp ◽  
Markus F. Damian
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Single Word ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
Language Modality ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Reading And Spelling

Written language is unlike other language components, in that reading and spelling are evolutionarily recent skills (i.e. human inventions that entered our repertoire only a few thousand years ago and have become widespread in the global population only in the past 100 years). Whereas reading has received considerable interest in psycholinguistics, written language production has been the “neglected” language modality, even though in this age of written electronic communication via email, texting, messaging, and so on, increasing numbers of people are processing written language as much or more than spoken language. In this chapter, we review some of the central issues in the psycholinguistics of single word written language production with the goal of providing the reader with an understanding of the cognitive and neural bases of this vital component of our language expertise.

Incorporating Electronic Mail into the Business Communication Course

1995 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen S. Nantz ◽  
Cynthia L. Drexel
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
Organizational Hierarchy ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
E Mail

E-mail is the primary communication vehicle for the information superhighway. Unfortunately, e-mail education is focusing on the hardware and software issues without regard for the requisite communication skills. To be effective electronic communicators, students need training in understanding the electronic organizational hierarchy and electronic communication volume and costs; selecting the appropriate media; and evaluating message permanence, security, ownership, and privacy. Including targeted exercises in the business communication class can enhance students' understanding of e-mail.

Electronic mail, a new written-language register: A study with French-speaking adolescents

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Volckaert-Legrier ◽  
Josie Bernicot ◽  
Alain Bert-Erboul
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Written Language ◽  
French Speaking

scholarly journals The use of digital signature in electronic communication in BiH - Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tijana Talić
Keyword(s):  
Digital Signature ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Identity Theft ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Frequent Presence

The increasing use of electronic mail for identity theft and unsolicited marketing and frequent presence of viruses as well, reduced the credibility of email as a communication tool. Authentication of the sender is well known defense against such attacks. One of the methods to ensure that authentication, secure communication via e-mail, is the use of digital signature.

The old and the new formation of euphemisms. Graphical euphemisms formation in electronic discourse

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robertas Kudirka
Keyword(s):  
Basic Function ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
Automatic Check ◽  
Electronic Discourse ◽  
Common Category ◽  
Symbol Substitution ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes ◽  
Letter Symbol

  Euphemistic substitution occurs due to taboo issues and the most common taboo subjects are physiological actions or their results (motion, sexual intercourse etc) thus the basic function of euphemistic substitution is to soften an offensive, vulgar word. A euphemism is usually defined as a softer, a more neutral substitute for vulgar words, however, such a definition is narrow and not precise as it only indicates one feature of euphemism formation, i.e. correctness, tact. Ascribing euphemisms only to the field of tropes does not reflect their contemporary distribution. Now euphemisms are also used as a linguistic means to conceal facts and manipulate the audience. It is necessary to understand the contemporary usage of euphemisms by two perspectives, i.e. as (1) a neutral word or phrase that is used instead of a synonymous one which is impolite or politically incorrect; and also as (2) individual, occasional contextual substitutions aimed at misrepresenting or concealing facts, real meaffning etc. The new usage of euphemisms is especially relevant to advocate and consolidate new social or political doctrines, "to positively inform" about acts of war carried out by totalitarian regimes, etc. Researchers investigating euphemism usage sometimes do not even mention graphical euphemism formation or do not pay greater attention to it, although in electronic discourse this is a widespread phenomenon. In written language in order to achieve euphemistic effect, a word can be restructured or changed by using non-letter graphical symbols instead of letters, euphemised graphical equivalents can be created. Graphical euphemism formation in manipulative media is not common due to obviousness. Graphical euphemisms as substitutes for obscene vocabulary are most commonly used in internet forums, article comments, interactive chat rooms. When using a graphical euphemism, the automatic check programme does not recognise it as a swearword, a vulgar word and allows inserting such a message. The article distinguishes six types of graphical euphemism formation in electronic discourse: insertion of a letter, insertion of a space, insertion of a non-letter symbol, substitution of a letter with a non-letter symbol, omission of a word part (beginning, middle, ending) and encryption. Together with these types, the cases of occasional and mixed euphemism formation are discussed. The most common type is the omission of a word part (beginning, middle, ending), another common category is that of the substitution of a letter with a non-letter symbol. Less frequent is euphemism formation by inserting a letter, a space or some other non-letter symbol into a word, while the least frequent and unpopular are cases of encrypting a euphemised word. 

Computer-Based Writing and Communication: Some Implications for Technical Communication Activities

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Technical Communication ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
Will Force ◽  
Types Of Information

Most research on writing has focussed on the work of single authors working by hand on prose texts. However, much professional work is collaborative, computer-based, not exclusively prose, and not well studied. Some preliminary research suggests that the use of computers will affect the cognitive activities of individual authors in several domains of immediate relevance to composition and technical communication practitioners: planning activities, editing activities, the writing of novice computer users or poor typists, and writing for electronic mail and other electronic communication. Research reported here suggests that the rapidly increasing capability of computer-based writing systems will force communication researchers to 1) broaden their basic conception of and methods of studying “author” to include authoring teams, 2) broaden the type of material studied from that which is purely or largely textual to that which much more frequently includes other types of information, and 3) track changes in “genre conventions” resulting from the increased capabilities of computer-based systems—in short, to assess the impacts of the medium on the message.

scholarly journals Netiquette in Electronic Communication

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Kozík ◽  
Jozefína Slivová
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Electronic Communications ◽  
Communications Systems ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge ◽  
E Mail

Electronic mail and electronic communications systems are considered significant and effective tools of communication. One of the most widespread electronic communication tools is e - mail communication. In order to avoid misinterpretation of the report on the side of the recipient, it is need to pay attention to the writing of e - mail messages as well as to their content. With the continuous expansion of the use of electronic communication there have gradually developed certain rules of etiquette in electronic communications. The existing rules of the propriety ones are expressed in the term " etiqutte " and are not automatically applied in the new communications environment - media. For electronic communication, the new rules of etiquette have been stabilised into a term NETIQUETTE. The word netiquette was created by combining words NET (net) and ETIKETA (a set of rules of social behavior and habits). Netiquette constitutes the rules of the behavior of users on a network. Although the netiquette is merely "an unwritten set of rules", their not using can be understood as a type of disrespect. Analysis of knowledge of domestic and foreign sources as well as results of a survey confirmed the justification of paying attention to the education of individuals in NETIQUETTE, irrespective of the degree of education.

scholarly journals Slashed Interiors: Text/Space

Interiority ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Igor Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Written Language ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Third ◽  
Punctuation Mark ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Glenn Ligon

This essay explores the relationship between text and space by considering the notion of writing interiors as a form of creative practice. The research focuses on the textual and spatial uses of the punctuation mark slash (/), as evidenced in a range of text-based works by Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Anni Albers, and other artists. The first part of the essay surveys the typographic character’s varied uses in written language; the second part considers its role within artwork titles, namely how its presence shapes spatial interpretations of each artwork in question; in the third part, preceding the conclusion, the focus is on the use of the slash as a mark that is both material and graphic. The resulting interpretations support a call for a change in the conversation about the relationship between writing and interiors.

scholarly journals An Analysis of English Punctuation

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Bayraktar ◽  
Bilge Say ◽  
Varol Akman
Keyword(s):  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Punctuation Mark ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Special Case

Punctuation has usually been ignored by researchers in computational linguistics over the years. Recently, it has been realized that a true understanding of written language will be impossible if punctuation marks are not taken into account. This paper contains the details of a computer-aided exercise to investigate English punctuation practice for the special case of comma (the most significant punctuation mark) in a parsed corpus. The study classifies the various "structural" uses of the comma according to the syntax-patterns in which a comma occurs. The corpus (Penn Treebank) consists of syntactically annotated sentences with no part-of-speech tag information about the individual words.

Communication in Health Care

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 244-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Duisterhout ◽  
P. J. Branger
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Electronic Data Interchange ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Current State ◽  
Data Interchange

Abstract:For routine communication, care providers still mainly rely on paper documents and paper mail. Evidence exists, however, that this communication can be improved, both by a better content of information exchange and by a more timely deliverance of this information. At present, several alternatives to paper-based communication are available, such as the Fax, the Smart Card, electronic mail, and electronic data interchange. This paper describes existing communication problems, and examines the current state of development and research aimed at improving this communication using electronic communication techniques that are gradually replacing paper-based communication. Applicability and shortcomings of these new techniques are also discussed.

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