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From: smp@sei.cmu.edu (Stan Przybylinski)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Academic newsletter wants article on email communications
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Date: 2 May 91 14:19:54 GMT
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In article <1991May1.171136.11987@milton.u.washington.edu>, 
cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:
|> Date: 28 Apr 91 21:05:23 EDT
|> From: "Jeffrey Kittay, Lingua Franca" <76200.414@CompuServe.COM>
|> Subject: Newsletter wants articles on email communications
|> Message-Id: <"910429010523 76200.414 EHL67-1"@CompuServe.COM>
|> 
|> 
|>I am interested in how language use between people on EMAIL differs from the
|>way they talk to each other or write to each other in other venues.  What is 
|> the sociolinguistics of EMail?  Topics such as: how certain taboos fall; 
|> increased informality, not to say bluntness; managing tone, jokes, irony 
|> (I know a little something about emoticons).  What about the fact that a
|> writer dashes off messages quickly, sends them out, and then realizes that 
|> something was said that should not have been: there is no way to take it 
|> back.

|> 
|> In other words, how does the technology (plus the communicative needs people
|> have today that are currently unmet) affect relationships on EMAIL?
|> 
|> I publish a magazine for professors called LINGUA FRANCA.  Only a year old 
|> and it has 15,000 subscribers and was just named one of the ten best 
|> magazines of the year.
|> 
|> My inquiry is with a view to either 1) getting information that will help a
|> writer do a story; 2) getting some tips on what may already have been 
|> written or published on this stuff, or 3) finding a writer who can report 
|> on all this stuff with a certain authority.
|> 
|> Signed: Jeffrey Kittaym publisher, Lingua Franca
|> My Address: 76200.414@compuserve.com
|> 
|> 
|> -- 

Dr. Jane Siegel, currently at the Software Engineering Institute, studied this 
topic extensively as part of her dissertation research.  You can reach her 
via email at jals@sei.cmu.edu.



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