Critical Perspective to Genre Analysis: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Electronic Mail Communication

AlAfnan, Mohammad Awad

doi:10.4236/ajc.2017.51002

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“…These age groups have been chosen to find out the effects of age and country of birth on language choice. To investigate the influences of the level of education on language use (AlAfnan, 2015(AlAfnan, , 2016(AlAfnan, , 2017(AlAfnan, , 2018(AlAfnan, , 2021, the level of education of patients was also recorded.…”

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Diglossic features of the Arabic-speaking community in Australia: The influences of age, education, and prestige

AlAfnan

2021

JLLS

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Diglossia is a language situation that does not always take place between two dialects of the same language; speaking two different languages in two different encounters is also considered diglossia. This study examines the use of language among Arabic-speaking Australians in Sydney. After analyzing ten authentic doctor-patient examination sessions in a clinic in Sydney, this study reveals that Arabic-speaking Australians are diglossic as they speak Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Reginal Arabic Dialects (RADs), and English depending on the technicality of the discussion. This study also reveals that the level of education, the number of years spent in Australia, age, and prestige play a significant role in determining high (H) and low (L) varieties among Arabic-Speaking Australians. This study also reveals that educated Arabic-speaking Australians speak English as their preferred language in technical conversations regardless of their age of arrival to Australia. The uneducated Arabs who arrived in Australia before the age of 20 either speak English or RADs in technical discussions. The uneducated Arabs who arrived in Australia after the age of 20 either speak RADs or MSA in their technical discussions. This study also reveals that code-switching is relatively popular among Arabic-speaking Australians who arrived in Australia after the age of 20. Code-mixing is popular among Arabic-speaking Australians who were either born in Australia or arrived in Australia before the age of 20. In these situations, code-switching is used as an indication of social prestige and code-mixing is used to express group identity.

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Diglossic features of the Arabic-speaking community in Australia: The influences of age, education, and prestige

AlAfnan

2021

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“…Emails are examined using Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory (AlAfnan, 2014(AlAfnan, , 2017(AlAfnan, , 2021(AlAfnan, , 2022a(AlAfnan, , 2023. Requesting was discovered to be a fairly prevalent feature in business email (Gains, 1999;Ziv, 1996).…”

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“…In this age of information and digitization, email communication has supplanted the use of conventional routes of communication. Despite the fact that some academics have classified email as a hybrid form of communication (AlAfnan, 2014), communicators often uphold a professional relationship by using appropriate subject lines, beginnings, closings, and sentences (AlAfnan, 2017). The asynchronous nature of email communication, particularly in thread or chain emails, has narrowed the social distance between communicators and reduced degrees of power relations, especially between superiors and subordinates (AlAfnan, 2015a).…”

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Student-Teacher Email Requests: Comparative Analysis of Politeness Strategies Used by Malaysian and Filipino University Students

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Cruz-Rudio²

2023

WJEL

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This comparative study investigates politeness strategies used in Malaysian and Filipino student-teacher requesting emails. After analyzing a corpus of 40 student-teacher email requests that are written by Malaysian and Filipino university students, it is found that Malaysian university students use more direct (i.e., imperative, interrogative) requesting politeness strategies than their Filipino counterparts while Filipino university students use more indirect (i.e., positive, negative) requesting politeness strategies than their Malaysian counterparts. It is also revealed that Filipino students realize their requests longer with more strategies than Malaysian students as they produced more politeness moves than their Malaysian counterparts. This implies that while Filipino students tend to give more reasons and employ other strategies to justify their requests and appeal to their teachers, Malaysian students tend to directly, but politely using politeness mitigation markers, express the request. This study also shows that the use of negative politeness strategies is prominent among Malaysian and Filipino students; however, students also used positive politeness to establish solidarity with teachers with their offering of explanation and expression of goodwill. Although the findings of this study support the universality of request and politeness strategies, differences between the two groups of students are also proof of the culture-specificity of certain strategies. It is recommended to incorporate cross-cultural pragmatic awareness in language classrooms to encourage students to be more culturally adaptable as they engage in communication with people from different nationalities.

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“…Excluding abbreviations, collocations and maritime register terms, the analysis has revealed that the texts are organized, and that tone and style are adapted to a discourse of commercial correspondence. However, in order to correctly interpret emails, it is necessary to have knowledge of the world or an understanding of the context [6].…”

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A Discourse Analysis Approach to Email Communication on Ships

Pejović¹

2022

JMS

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Emails have become an inevitable communication tool in a specific profes-sional environment such as a ship. Changes that arose due to data digitaliza-tion, automatization and advances in communication systems have expanded the scope of internal and external ship business correspondence. Neverthe-less, the structure of an email as a genre in seafaring has adapted to generic schemata in online communication and ship-specific communicative stand-ards. Based on the genre analysis theories put forward by Swales and Bhatia, we analyse a corpus of emails collected from five foreign companies (100 pages of text). Then, the collected data were explained and interpreted con-cerning the contextual setting, primarily participants and their role in the giv-en shipboard situation. The findings of this paper have pedagogical implica-tions for creating teaching material for present and future ESP courses and introducing the concept of genre in establishing communication patterns in email correspondence on ships.

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Critical Perspective to Genre Analysis: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Electronic Mail Communication

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Diglossic features of the Arabic-speaking community in Australia: The influences of age, education, and prestige

Diglossic features of the Arabic-speaking community in Australia: The influences of age, education, and prestige

Student-Teacher Email Requests: Comparative Analysis of Politeness Strategies Used by Malaysian and Filipino University Students

A Discourse Analysis Approach to Email Communication on Ships

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