27.744, Books: The Inbox: Ewald

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:43:57
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: The Inbox: Ewald

 


Title: The Inbox 
Subtitle: Understanding and Maximizing Student-Instructor Email 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/inbox-management-toolkit-understanding-maximizing-student-instructor 


Author: Jennifer D. Ewald

Hardback: ISBN:  9781781791134 Pages: 162 Price: U.S. $ 80 Comment: £50
Paperback: ISBN:  9781781791141 Pages: 162 Price: U.S. $ 27.95 Comment: £17.99


Abstract:

E-mail is a common medium of communication in academic settings, and its
informal nature has given rise to unique discourse strategies that can
advantageously combine the norms of oral and written language. Unfortunately,
e-mail is also a potential source of misunderstanding. Some teachers, annoyed
by the informalities that characterize this discourse context, interpret
students’ messages as demanding, impolite, or unprofessional. For many
students, however, e-mail is outdated, and some use it only in the university
context, opting to text, facebook, or tweet their family and friends. 

This book provides a detailed analysis of 1,403 e-mail messages sent by 338
university students to a professor of Spanish and linguistics. This research
has several goals: to analyze features of students’ messages that reveal their
beliefs about the norms for student-teacher e-mail exchanges; to explore the
effective incorporation of the conventions of both oral and written language
in this particular discourse context; to identify patterns or rhetorical
strategies used by students in e-mail to perform certain pragmatic functions,
such as making a request, offering an excuse, expressing gratitude,
apologizing and complaining; and, to identify students’ choice of language for
e-mails to their teacher and the pragmatic functions for which they chose to
write in their first or second languages. Each of the chapters specifically
addresses several pedagogical implications and identifies areas for additional
investigation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Language Acquisition
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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