Corpora: e-mail help

[David Lee]

Leonardo Musumeci wrote:

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I'm studying in Verona and actually I'm doing my thesis on E-mail
language.
I read some books on linguistic,but I cannot find material about the
e-mail corpora.Therefore the e-mail language itself.
My analysis will be morphological, syntactical,phonological ( the new
way of expressing intonation and emphasis) and will also deal with new
terms, abbreviations and acronyms.
If you have any internet adresses or books regarding it or if you know
how can I find e-mails to analyze
please answer me.
Any help will be extremely appreciated
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There are 7 files totalling some 212,999 words in the British National
Corpus (BNC) which are taken from a football e-mail discussion list. If
you're not bothered about the rather limited subject matter or the
relatively small no. of words, this would be a good place to start.

The file IDs are:
J1C
J1D
J1E
J1F
J1G
J1H
J1J

(N.B. There are numerous typos, neologisms, and what I call 'tortured
syntax' in these e-mail files, so use with caution! The accuracy of the
part-of-speech tagging for these files reflects these problems...)


As for references to work in this area, a good place to start is:

Baron, Naomi S (1998) Letters by phone or speech by other means: the
linguistics of email. Language and Communication 18:133-170.


where you will find countless other references to research in the fields
of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and literacy studies.



Dave.
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