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The Development of E-Mail Literacy: From Writing to Peers to Writing to Authority Figures
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Chen, Chi-Fen Emily – Language Learning & Technology, 2006
Though e-mail has become a common interpersonal communication medium, it does not mean that this medium is used without difficulty. While people can write e-mails to peers in any manner they like, writing e-mails to authority figures requires higher pragmatic competence and critical language awareness of how discourse shapes and reflects power…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Interpersonal Communication, Metalinguistics, Discourse Analysis