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Some pragmatic aspects of e-mail communication

Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2014

Abstract

E-mail is one of the most commonly used types of communications. This paper discusses characteristic features of e-mail communication as a crossover type of communication oscillating between written and spoken mode.

It also attempts to how we employ in this type of "writing conversation" the co-operative principle in comparison with its usage in normal conversation. It analyses several original e-mails attempting to show how we perceive this type of communication.