‘Dearest beloved one, I need your assistance’: the rhetoric of spam mail  

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Viswamohan, Aysha Iqbal ; Hadfield, Charles ; Hadfield, Jill

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 64 no. 1 (Jan. 2010), page 85-94 .
Topik: ELT
Fulltext: 2010.1.85.full.pdf (99.36KB)

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Most of us receive spam or junk mail every day. While we are often tempted, on ?rst impulse, to delete them, a close reading of these emails provides some interesting insights to those of us who deal with teaching and research in English language, particularly in the context of language and culture. This article will attempt to analyse the linguistic features and discourse strategies of spam emails, mail which is unsolicited and unwanted by the recipient. While the language of speci?c technical domains, such as emails or SMSmessages has been the subject of academic analysis, junk mail has been a neglected ?eld. Although there are several kinds of spam or junk emails, this article will focus on those which promise an inheritance from a benefactor from distant shores: the ‘Dearly beloved’ genre of spam emails, where an unknown sender sends a message to the receiver, pleading for kindness, mercy, or charity and promising monetary gain in recompense. A close reading of such spam mail can lead to interesting ?ndings on the interdependent roles of language, culture, and technology.

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